Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...car and into the train popped little Tsar Boris and a young woman sometimes called "the uncrowned Queen of Bulgaria." She is meek, sad-eyed, industrious, pious, charitable and much beloved. Each morning this admirable young woman, Princess Eudoxia, 29, assists her brother, the 33-year-old Tsar, with his correspondence, finds out what he desires to eat that day, sets the palace wenches bustling, and counts herself lucky if there remains time for a little tennis or a canter on horseback between the hours of household duty and official functions...
...Assistant Equerry of the Apostolic Palaces was at Milan, Italy, last week on an especial mission to buy a third motor car for His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The smaller of the two motor cars which the people of Milan gave Achille Ratti when in 1922 he was called from being their archbishop to become the Supreme Pontiff has worn out. The Pope has used it effectively in his drives about the Vatican grounds...
...road accident in which frequently someone is more or less injured. Naturally, being a physician, usually known to someone in the attending group, frequently a policeman, I am asked to give assistance. Over and over again I have treated and bandaged a victim, carried him off in my car, or had him conveyed to the nearest hospital. I have attended at least eight such cases in the past three months. I make my living from my work and am not a professional philanthropist. Therefore my services should be paid for. Yet not one of the eight whom I have attended...
...title of Colonel, as did Col. Edward M. House, from an appointment to the staff of the Governor of Texas. He has lost one leg; the other is slightly rheumatic?so he rides about in an electric car over the seven miles of paved roads on his estate. A genial squire and patron, he keeps 300 employees, has 32 residences for them...
...Robson). Aunt Mary's nephew enters an automobile race and she clambers into the car to feed him pumpkin pie while he roars around the track. The heroine (Phyllis Haver) fears this will be the death of the 70-year-old lady, so she commandeers an ambulance and tears after them. In the end, everybody is feeling fine, including the audience and a patient who is discovered crawling out of the ambulance...