Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour we went on in this way, shouting or firing at lighted windows, racing through suspect streets. No one fired on us, thank God! Then they drove us home, running the car right onto the pavement a yard from...
...With Her Majesty beside him last week His Majesty drove a car briefly in Windsor, was promptly described as "the first King in British history to drive his Queen in an automobile." George V never drove Queen Mary: Edward VIII drove Mrs. Simpson. She remained last week in France with friends whose chef she last year got appointed chef of Buckingham Palace. He resigned last week, one jump ahead of dismissal by George VI. Meanwhile the letters patent creating the Dukedom of Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor...
...Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...sentimental than it is. Nonetheless, despite flaws in Henry King's direction and in Melville Baker's dialog when it occurred to them that the picture needed purple patches, Seventh Heaven retains most of its original persuasiveness. Even the alarming contrast between Simone Simon's baby-car-riage French accent and James Stewart's adenoidal Princeton one, gives their scenes together-of which the picture is largely composed-a pleasantly improbable quality in full keeping with the story's unrealistic mood. Good shot: Chico and Diane celebrating his debut as a street-washer with...
...addition of a stop light on the road, which shifted continually, control of the radiator became a Herculean task. Dr. DeSilva explained that the average driver can stay on the road 64 percent of the time, but some are in the ditch 90 percent of the test. If the car were left to steer itself, it would be in the ditch only 30 percent...