Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score of publications in the U. S. and England) ; young enough to be inquisitive; old enough to be acquisitive; adaptable; resourceful. Can boss or be bossed as the occasion demands; can type; can-with a little brushing up-operate a switchboard; with the key to the ignition, drive a car...
...coaches on a train from New York City to Albany last week rode five despairing, middle-aged women put aboard by a noisy, demonstrative crowd of friends. In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking...
Indicted at Hanover Courthouse, Va. as a hit-&-runner, ex-Ambassador (to Germany) William E. Dodd pleaded innocence, said he didn't know his car struck and injured 4-year-old Negro Gloria Grimes...
Agent Wilson's report in Science: "This meteorite penetrated the roof of a frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...
...present car owners who get "locked in" have to plead with the caretaker to get "let out." A short time ago one resident drove out as the caretaker raised the chain and shouted out the window terms deprecating the general practice of chains and referred to the caretaker in uncomplimentary terms. He disappeared in a cloud of exhaust, but since then it has become increasingly difficult to get the necessary permission, residents said...