Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosamond Pinchot Gaston was featured in a Hupmobile advertisement. A description of her said: "She adores horses, motor cars, and motor boats. . . . Peel of London makes her riding boots, and Nardi her habits. . . . Her favorite luncheon place is the Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They know her in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, New York, and points west as the nun in The Miracle, and all over Europe as a member of Max Reinhardt's Repertoire company. . . . She shuttles between New York and an island off the coast of Maine by train, car, and speed boat. . . . Her personal...
Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...
Last week at Los Angeles, Mrs. Alexander Pantages, wife of the western theatrical chain man, was charged with murder for killing a man while drunk and driving her motor car...
Died. "Big" Arthur Callen, of Philadelphia, veteran racketeer; in West Philadelphia; shot with six soft-nosed bullets by an unidentified gunman. Racketeer Callen who usually wore a bullet-proof vest and travelled in an armored car, was apparently spotted* before dawn, defenseless. In his apartment police found a rifle with silencer, a shot gun, an acetylene torch, nitroglycerine, six pair of canvas gloves and opium equipment...
...entirely new touring car. It has taken three years to build. It has been called "15 years ahead of the world's best." It will accelerate from ten to 60 miles an hour in ten seconds. It will ride comfortably at 100 miles an hour. Its intake manifolds were experimented with for more than a year. Its enclosed body seats seven persons. It has a 37 h.p. 6-cylinder engine. It is the new Rolls- Royce, last week announced by Rolls-Royce Co. (of England...