Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relate two incidents which occurred in my experience recently. At a large public gathering, held near New York City early last month, The Star-Spangled Banner was played by the band as a prelude to the addresses and exercises of the evening. I was seated in my car, but I did not remove my hat, as this would have been equivalent to my acquiescence in the vicious sentiments and ribald music of this song, which I repudiate, as well as an acknowledgment of its legality, contrary to Congress' attitude...
...came running toward me, excitedly waving his arms, and demanding that I remove my hat, but I paid no attention to him, and the music ceased before he reached my car...
...quietly to leave the hall in which they were. The audience did as requested, but as soon as Signor Orlando appeared outside, a mob of Fascisti rushed at him. Carabinieri immediately rushed to the old man's assistance and with some difficulty he was escorted safely into his car...
...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...
...automobile was Inventor Francis P. Houdina's American Wonder, controlled by radio waves sent from a following car. Two sets of waves were used, caught by antennae on the Wonder's tonneau, introduced to circuit-breakers operating small electric motors, which in turn operated steering wheel, clutch, brake, gears, horn...