Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were strolling along wondering if fifteen justices would be enough to keep the Hudson from flooding when nine couldn't tame the Mississippi, when a shifty looking automobile slithered up to the curve beside us. It was the kind of a car that proves that she doesn't drive a Dusenberg because she had a chauffeur, a footman, and a lapdog to drive it for her. With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred...
...continued to gain about three inches every year. At one time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...
...ideas for them everywhere, except when driving a car. I try and think of something slithering around and the next thing I know I'm in the ditch...
...Thurston, Md., Farmer L. I. Gregg's car became deeply mired in a road whose condition the neighbors had long deplored. Unable to extricate his car even with the help of a large and sympathetic crowd, Farmer Gregg dynamited it as a protest...
Harvey Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. has only one dining car, the K.C.S. but three. Assets of the two roads foot up in about the same ratio - $36,500,000: $136,000,000 - and dining car and passenger revenues mean little to either. Running from New Orleans to Shreveport, La. and Hope, Ark. with an affiliate branching to Dallas, Tex. the L. & A. carries mostly quarry products, refined oils and sugar...