Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...green with a belt of yellow and-red striping around the door and window molding. The rear seat in the passenger compartment is large enough to accommodate three fares. There is a single folding seat in a recess well forward where the right hand forward seat of a pleasure car would come. The extra room gives the fourth passenger plenty of space for his legs . . . the running board is not wide enough to accommodate a trunk, nor is there any trunk rack in the rear...
...coffee in a San Francisco lunch room. Nonetheless, JLuigi (Jean Hersholt), potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack. It is all rather diverting. Sidney Howard wrote it, using his successful play, They Knew What They Wanted, as a basis...
dined formally at the Englewood, N. J., home of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...
...touring car, containing W. L. Shaney, his wife Esther, and fouryear old daughter Alleen, running eastward along Memorial Drive, at 1.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suddenly, with no apparent cause, plunged into eight feet of water in the Charles River just west of Anderson Bridge. Only the top of the car was left in sight...
...Moore, of 6 Pond Street, Jamaica Plain, was at the same time driving in the opposite direction, being about 200 feet away when the accident occurred. Arriving on the spot, he jumped from his automobile and swam to the submerged car...