Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Mrs. Hoover's town car is a Fierce-Arrow, newly acquired, omitted from TIME'S list of motors used by First Families (TIME, May 6). Two other Fierce-Arrows stand in the White House garage, for the Secret Service...
Just before daylight two Hammond policemen came upon the bloody contents of Spooner's Nook. The object in the bushes, the two objects in the ditched car, were dead men's bodies, ragged with bullet-holes, sticky...
...City of New York pays its mayor $25,000 per annum-not much, considering the requirements of a sprightly person like Mayor Walker. In addition he gets a leather-lined Locomobile town car bearing the license plate Wi. Last week he ruminated more or less confidentially to a trusted group of newsmen to this effect...
...about the Rolls-Royce (borrowed) in which Miss Wills's Grecian "poker" face showed, beside her equally statuesque blonde California friend Harriet ("Hatsy") Walker. Unperturbed, while sweating policemen held back the crowds, Miss Wills sketched in a notebook. After a while she pulled the side curtains of the car, leaned back without disturbing the feathers in her hair, daydreamed. In the line in another car (make unnoticed) sat Miss Virginia Willys of Toledo, Ohio, daughter of Motor-maker John North Willys...
...that instant shadowy figures sprang from the shrubbery. Two grenades hurtled through the air, fell beside the car. When they did not explode, a fusillade of shots rang out. Lieut. Gudinas, the aide, fell, mortally wounded as he shielded Professor Valdemaras with his own body. The small grandnephew was shot in the stomach. A passing young girl was hit in the leg. "Furthermore," wired an agitated Lithuanian correspondent, "one of the bullets penetrated Mme. Valdemaras' clock...