Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigation by filching Dodd's private papers and letting Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson copy them. The testimonial dinners? "Commonplace, openly conducted, but in view of the abuse I've received, I wish I'd never heard of one." The free use of a car? "Now what's wrong with that? Other people had lent me cars. I never did anything for any of them that I wouldn't do for anyone else...
...back-seat passengers any sudden jolts also gives maximum miles per gallon," and parking "with a suitable air of reverence avoids costly damage to tire walls." At the same time, the kind of tender loving care that chauffeurs generally bring to servicing and polishing "ensures long life for the car and maximum secondhand value...
Economy? When he pulls his old Cadillac up to a parking meter, according to Billionaire Getty, "I'm parking 18 ft. 9 in. of car for my sixpence-and that's real value for money...
...leading actors, plays the aristocrat. He has the imperious laugh and slightly flacid look of the landowner and master. When he mounts for the last charge, he must be revered, not because he is himself endearing, but because the alternative is a world of half-smoked cigarettes and tooting car horns. He is the only character in the movie who is more than the stock figure of a class or station...
...campaign, he worked under a pseudonym. Ungar is an inveterate cigar smoker, so during the campaign, he was to be known as Mr. Ragic. The identity of Mr. Ragic became the great mystery of the Queens storefronts. Orders were issued over the phone - by Mr. Ragic. Ragic rented a car and driver to take him from one store-front to the next. The driver would park in a nearby dark alley and go inside to bring the Lindsayite store-manager back to the car for a hurried conference. This masquerade was kept up until election day. Then, with a school...