Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fluffy lion cub crouched, speed-stunned in Signer Mussolini's lap as the Dictator stepped upon the throttle of his racing car and sped toward Rome. That was in 1923. Provincial admirers had bestowed the beast. As she grew into a sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...
...five cars duplicate exactly those on which the last of the Tsars crossed the Trans-Siberian railway. One car contains a chapel, the altar ablaze with a jeweled service. The salon car of the Tsar is complete with bath, lounge and dining-room. A locomotive propelled by clockwork draws the whole...
Meantime, aided by statisticians, prophets indulged in prophesying. The year just closing had been neither a bad year nor a boom. The sales volume, both in dollars and units (cars), would exceed even record-smashing 1925.* That seeming certainty, after the gloomy predictions of last spring, augured well indeed for 1927. The new record would result chiefly from large gains by a few big companies, but gains made at no expense to the small. After any bad year most of the companies set out to recuperate by developing new lines or by cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only...
Alvan Tufts Fuller, Packard Motor Car dealer in Boston, Governor of Massachusetts: "Last week I purchased in Paris, for 58,000 francs, a painting, The Statue, by Hubert Robert, the lively 18th Century French painter admired by Voltaire. Fortnight ago I secured at the Michelham sale in London (TIME, Dec. 6) Romney's much coveted portrait of Lady de la Pole, for $220,000. I often buy pictures. Less frequently, I write poetry...
...clock in the afternoon, thus obviating the necessity of the trip to Boston. The "Minute Man" is associated with the "Lake Shore Limited" of the New York Central Lines, in each direction, and leaves LaSalle Street Station, Chicago, for Cambridge at 5.30 o'clock daily. A club car is available throughout the journey...