Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to be fading from a flaming crimson into the more delicate mauve of solidarity. Like opera girls and Memorial Hall dining room, the old traditions are becoming passe, for now the carefree Lothario who whisks by in his shining roadster must give way to the more sedate touring car of the happily married student with the wife and little strangers. In the coeducational University of Washington, marriage among the undergraduates is even being promoted by the faculty on the grounds that those who have the responsibility of a wife get better grades...
...colorful figures must go. It is true that the college will become more like an insurance office with its restrictions resulting from the connubial ties but the old levity is taboo. Weekends in New York must give way to shopping trips to buy Oscar Jr. a new kiddie car. Percy Marks will have to leave the field to the more domesticated Gertrude Atherton...
...Last week, motoring to Calhoun, Ga., with her grandson, Mrs. Felton, now 94, was flung against the back window of the car when it crashed another. She, the only one hurt, sat calmly while physicians worked on her face for two hours, staunching her wounds and putting in 20 stitches. *"Little Flower" in Italian...
...word "beefsteak."* Happenings of last week made it possible that the U. S. branch of the Anglo-Saxon family might also add the word "flivver' For Henry Ford was preparing to drive vigorously for the French market and to compete sharply with Citroen, the popular-priced French car which sells at approximately the same price ($1,000) in the French market as the least expensive of the new Fords...
...Fords held up production, but the new "Henri's" are now ready for the French market. La Journée Industrielle, French industrial magazine, has been beating the tocsin, sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor car production-both trucks and passenger cars-amounts to about 250,000 cars per year, whereas U. S. automobile makers expect a 1,000,000 increase over 1928 production, it is obvious that many a new Ford will be competing with Citroen sales...