Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown Derby began to wave salutations. As far as his dazzling blue eyes could see, was the People?on roofs and on streets. It took an hour for the Smith automobile to travel 20 blocks. For safety the motor had to be shut off; the People pushed the car. An old man in a robe stood on a truck at Scollay Square; he held aloft a sign saying: "Diogenes looking for Hoover Prosperity." The air was full of a thousand Smiths and not a few O'Briens; they were on pages of torn-up telephone books. It was getting dark...
...prancing bearers proclaimed: "Remember November sixth ? beer!" The swarms of children grew prodigious. Cautioningly, anxiously now the Derby waved. One child run down would cost thousands of votes, perhaps millions. Yet swarming imps were every where, all yelling and grinning, a few tying to the Derby's car tin cans which other imps snatched off, pummeling the tin-cantiers...
Derby folk thought the peak of the day came when it skimmed across another state line to rock-ribbed Republican Hartford, Conn. Here five miles of packed humans jammed the streets, through which police fought a slow way for the Candidate's car. And at no point did the crowds thin or taper off?as happened in Chicago...
Simultaneously Manhattan's Communist monthly, New Masses, printed a car toon flaying both H. R. H. and his Afric good-will tour (TIME, Sept...
...horse-dars provided the most excitement. When several men were feeling good they would jump on a car and drive in towards Boston. They might push the conductor off the car, or else just take care of him inside. Sometimes they would get off at Central Square and drive back. No, they did not turn, the car around. They just boarded one coming-the other...