Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like to go back to railroading it; it is the most fascinating business in the world. Senators' vacations are too long! We waste too much time!" So said James Couzens, U. S. Senator from Michigan, interviewed last week during his 55th birthday. One-time freight-car checker, onetime Ford vice president, Senator Couzens is reputed to be the richest member of the U, S. Senate...
Dame Rachel Crowdy, Chief of Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section of the League of Nations, was driving home in her Ford car. The latter "was promptly suspected...
...Fisher Body brothers of Detroit.* They were told that not enough Baldwin Directors were in Philadelphia to make up a quorum. Mr. Bitting and Mr. Shields went to Manhattan to "enjoy the sights." Next day in Philadelphia Baldwin directors met, transacted routine business, noted that their locomotive and car business was not particularly good (railroads seem to have sufficient rolling stock), elected no new fellow directors. Their next meeting was scheduled for late in September. Baldwin Locomotive "Works seemed a good investment to the Fisher Brothers. It is the largest locomotive works in the U. S. It owns high priced...
...Vienna, Austria, a fortnight ago, a policeman strode up to one Michael O'Flaherty, tourist, and informed him that because he had dropped a tram car ticket on the street he was liable to pay a fine of 8½ schillings ($1.25) for "littering...
...after marrying Alan, gets Jerry back from Dolly on the rebound, helping him terminate a trial ride on the water wagon. Then Jerry's car, "the loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...