Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water deficiency since February has averaged 12 inches. Water has been shipped in at 5? a gallon, $4 a tank, and $20 a car. Mines have paid $3,000 a month for their water supply. A proclamation by the Governor of South Carolina called upon citizens of that state to fast and pray for a break in the drought...
...high-powered car purred through the forest of Fuente de la Teja. Reclining in the tonneau were a stiff young fellow in military trimmings, and a cadaverous-faced, hook-nosed individual with all the bored air of a man of the world. King Alfonso was going to visit the new water works which are to supply Madrid...
Presently their car purred into a clearing, where huts huddled under the black boughs, and many-colored peasants basked in the sun. The car stopped. The astounded dozers found themselves basking in their monarch's smile...
...King descended from his car and in a moment stood in the inn doorway. The company within sat transfixed, then stumbled to their feet. The grinning bride began to blush, the bridegroom, a lusty bricklayer, began to stammer...
...huge foreign motor car of primitive design, roaring by night through the streets of New Haven informed the inhabitants of that town, some 25 year ago, that Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt was going out for the evening. The same vehicle, roaring back through the dawn, let them know that he would be in for the day. Even at that time the press had begun to refer to him as "Reggie" and to point with horror to his unhallowed pleasures. His classmates, however, voted him "the most likely to succeed in life...