Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...Eastman has a faithful, attendant physician, Dr. Albert D. Kaiser. His sharp ears caught the sound of a hasty knock as the sleeping car attendant dashed past his door. "I arose," said Dr. Kaiser afterward, "and found Eastman sleeping peacefully. ... I told him to fly. ... He grabbed for his clothes, but I shouted: 'Leave everything! Not a second to lose...
Some few hours later rich Mr. Eastman arrived at Cairo wearing one slipper, one shoe, a pair of dress trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...
Banker W. J. Johnson, of Chicago, has a $12,000 biplane. "The only use to which I put my ship," he says, "is pleasure. Instead of taking my wife and seven-year-old son for a short week-end trip in the car, as I used to do, we now climb aboard the ship and take a regular trip. On my vacation we went to California...
...when a brunette (Myrna Loy) crinkled her eyes at him, and he temporarily forgot all vows. The brunette borrowed his cigaret lighter, a present from his wife, and May discovers all. Alarmed, she telephones a mauve musician (Andre Beranger) and the two slip under the lap robes of the car in which the philandering pair are taking a speedy moonlight, midnight drive...