Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past two days a large Packard touring car has been circulating about the outlying buildings of the University, snapping shots of students going to examinations and other items of local color, under the chaperonage of several members of the Student Council...
...curiosity now, the small, two seated, carriage-like automobile, 17 years ago was the finest conveyance for miles around. The ravages of time have left unscathed the product of that dimly remembered time when the salesman could honestly say to his prospective buyer, "there's real stuff in that car...
...Reichenbach is particularly proud of having raised, on a wager, a certain Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away...
...Manhattan baby was the U. S. automobile industry, swaddled for its first show. The 31 cars exhibited came so far from filling the spacious Garden that an oval track was erected on the floor, around which the "horseless carriages" chug-chugged through their nursery paces to the mixed distrust and astonishment of gaping throngs. Up on the roof a demonstration "hill" was constructed, and here many an adventurous blood with money to spend had the ride that sold him his first motor car...
...very visible reflection of this feeling was to be found on ten consecutive pages of the Saturday Evening Post last week?an eleven page group advertisement for which $77,000 was paid by the Willys Overland Co. and eight companies furnishing standard accessories of that car. The display was said to be a record insertion, in price and size, for all time...