Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That evening it was discovered that the percolator had been left connected too long, had run down the battery of the royal car until no current remained to light the lights.* Resigned, Her Majesty went to bed at dusk, awoke next morning as her train entered Paris, after 48 hours of travel...
...royal car, antiquated, was not supplied with a dynamo to charge the battery, as are all modern railroad cars. The trainmen, louts, did not attempt to rig up emergency lights connected to the batteries of other cars on the train...
...French capital asleep, though the hour was 10 a. m. Rubbing startled eyes, I beheld through the window of my sleeping compartment a silk-hatted delegation of welcome from President Doumergue. Discomfited but not nonplused I dressed hastily and managed to receive my well-wishers just before my car was switched onto a train destined for Calais...
...because of two events. Neither one of them pleased me. I was linked with the sensational K. K. K. investigations in Indiana, a fact which my opponents say will damage my chances for re-election to the Senate. Then I was injured in an automobile accident near Indianapolis. My car went into a ditch to save crashing into another machine. I received a scalp wound which it took ten stitches to close, a sprained wrist and ankle, many bruises. I will be in the hospital for a week...
...patted his stomach, pouted his chest, lay on the ground. A plank was laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals to be seriously mashed...