Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special car was made ready to carry the President west. It has an observation platform and a large radio set to broadcast Mr. Harding's rear platform speeches...
During all this furore about speed nothing about efficiency is said. The subway and bus systems of Paris are probably the most efficient in the world. The trains of the Nord-Sud and the Métropolitan, with three double doors on the side of each car, permit rapid exits and entrances. On a certain day, during the busiest hour, the longest stop from the Place Denfert-Rochereau to the Madelaine was only seven seconds...
...Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...
...Chinese General Chamber of Commerce lent its complaining voice to that of the rickshaw experts. It petitioned the Government to cancel the contract on the ground that it would ruin thousands of rickshaw coolies. "Besides, there is foreign money behind the trolley car company...
Married. Katherine MacDonald, cinema actress, to Charles Schoen Johnson, grandson of Charles T. Schoen, inventor of the pressed steel railroad car, at Atlantic City...