Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Hartman Woodin, Manhattan Republican, industrialist (American Car &. Foundry Co., American Locomotive Co., General Motors Corp.). Reason: personal friendship, admiration...
...muses before composing an epic. Poet Stephen Vincent Benét, however, narrowly and specifically invokes the "American Muse," by crying, "you are the buffalo-ghost, the broncho-ghost ... a friend, an enemy, a sacred hag with two oceans in her medicine bag . . . and you are . . . the cheap car parked by the station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter...
Speedy (Harold Lloyd)-Aided by Babe Ruth and horse car...
...freight have gone around the Pyrenees. Now at last the railroad has climbed and pierced through. Roadways wind interminably up the Pyrenees and over passes, none lower than 5,000 feet; but these trails are more fit for mountain goats than motorcycles and quite impracticable for the average motor car or truck. The late Emperor of the French, Napoleon...
...themselves, their ideals, the progress they have made and their importance to the well-being of the world at large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world by the share he claims in the success of various businesses. This incrimination was received with applause by the humble and clever advertising...