Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted him as 87-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He walked back to his car, where his wife was waiting and exclaimed: "It was thrilling! Simply thrilling...
Rushing to a rally at East St. Louis last week, Governor Len Small of Illinois let his chauffeur "step on it." Near Girard, Ill., the Small car overtook a car occupied by two country men. Honking loudly, roaring on, the Small chauffeur whizzed alongside, cut in sharply, sideswiped the country men, ditched them, bruised them, cut them, embarrassed Governor Small...
...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...
...with electrical devices and organized two companies to manufacture them. In 1893, having studied the motor plans of Daimler and Benz and the body-building methods of Levasseur, he had drawn the plans for the first Packard; the financial depression of the next few years prevented him from manufacturing cars for the several years afterward. It was not until 1899 that the first Packard rolled out upon the roads, a high, sloping car, followed by children and stared at by scornful farmers...
...dragged ashore Shaney, the operator of the car. Returning for the other two helpless occupants, he was aided by an unknown rescuer and all arrived safely on shore. The five participants were carried to the First Precinct Station House, and thence the three sufferers were taken to the Cambridge hospital...