Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover last week drove her Packard to Richmond, Va., and back (225 mi.) to inspect an exhibit of portraits of early Virginians. Her guests were three - Mrs. Vernon L. Kellogg, Mrs. H. S. Cummings and Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone. A chauffeur rode idly in her car, a body guard trailed in another...
While living up to his title in the literal by investigating some of the remoter recesses of the New Hampshire hills from behind the wheel of an aged but still active automobile, the Vagabond was called upon to navigate a narrow passage between a car parked on one side of the road and a large mudhole on the other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes...
Just then he noticed that the car that had caused his misfortune was occupied. A benign old lady leaned out the window and informed him that if only her husband were there he would be very glad to help him. Next it developed that her husband would not be back until dark, for he had left her there while he fished a nearby brook. She was going on to quote statistics about the length of time various friends of hers had been stuck in that same mud-hole when down the hill clattered a Ford bearing the local representative...
...give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat of a car...
...more obvious advantages of living under a Dictator appeared last week in an order issued by Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia. Street car conductors were forbidden to eat garlic or drink brandy before or during hours of service...