Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rambling, ungrammatical but engrossing tale. A low ceiling, reported Pilot Buckshot, had forced him to turn back after his take-off in the "People's Airplane," the $5,800 Stinson Station Wagon that his admiring readers and constituents bought him last year. Undaunted, Sheriff Lane switched to a car, followed a 300-mile trail to the store where he seized the stolen machines. Like an accomplished serial writer, Buckshot hoped that by the next installment he might also seize the elusive Sewing Maching Gang...
Honest Buck Lane freely admits to his readers when a careless deputy gets played for a sucker: "When he returned to his car, his pistol a 44-40 single action, his tear gas billy and 4 boxes of shells . . . was flat gone, it's getting rough when thieves rob the law." But usually, in Lane's letters, the forces of decency triumph. The other day, a fly-by-night peddler who was "after the cotton money" invaded Wharton County: "He said, well I'll buy a license and I said we don't sell licenses...
...bodyguards were back when Nehru got to Harvard. Six of them sirened up to the President's House in side-car motorcycles at 1 p.m., displaying their skill and hauteur to the students gawking without. With split-second timing, President Conant and Nehru emerged from their respective doors, shook hands, and immediately went on location in the back yard. Thirty photographers snapped for five minutes while the President and the Pandit no doubt passed small talk about mutual acquaintances in New Delhi...
...standing with one foot on the quai and one in a gondola haggling with the gondolier over prices when the gondolier gave a quick twist with his car . . . One of the oddest hazards of the summer was the admonishment in a cata-comb in Rome, "Persons tampering with the relics will be excommunicated...
...dodge gunfire again to get another beat. He was on his way for a quiet beer just as the cops flushed Dillinger Henchman Homer van Meter, then Public Enemy No. 1, from an apartment hiding place. In trying to escape, Van Meter ran in front of Presbrey's car. Presbrey jammed on the brake and the cops poured 40 slugs into Van Meter. Now, after such narrow escapes, Paul Presbrey is getting a little mystical about his luck. Says he: "Sometimes it scares me. But I couldn't stop going if I wanted...