Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This taboo, like all others, at times works hardship on the public. It arouses curiosity without allaying it. For example, it was recently news that Philadelphia baseball fans would present Cy Williams with a "new motor car " for his ability as a home-run hitter. Affection it was, pure and simple. Everyone likes to read about affection and, having found it, wants to know how much. Did Philadelphia fans love Cy Williams like a Rolls-Royce or Ford? But for a civil answer the journals said: " A motor car...
...horse-car hustle of Harvard and the scholastic quiet at Oxford cannot find place in the same category. In Oxford, man walks, talks, and has his being in an atmosphere of scholasticism...
...That a division of the Interstate Commerce Commission should be created to supervise the coal industry, especially with regard to car supply...
...announcement that 46 automobiles have been tagged within the last two days for infringement of the parking laws is rather a startling one. For, altho parking in the wrong place is hardly a sin, it will hereafter cost the owner of the car the sum of ten dollars. Except for the leniency of Captain Brennan there would be 460 less dollars in the pockets of various student owners already...
...Take a quart of synthetic Gordon gin, ten oranges and some ice; mix; get a refined lady drunk and distress her mother; get drunk yourself; when you and the refined lady are thoroughly intoxicated get into the car and zigzag through the streets until you see a woman wheeling a baby carriage from one curb to the other; then step on the gas. The chances are the carriage will have a baby...