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Word: cars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Mountain Express stopped one day last week at Northampton, Mass., to take aboard a sandy-haired man carrying a small black bag marked C. C. He took a seat in the Pullman drawing room, leaving the door open. School girls raced through the car, peeked in at him, giggled. He shut the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Business | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...easy for the new Earl, either. He had taken the Trimmers along to help him out, but at that there was no car at the station to meet them, and the crowd on the platform did not seem to like the checked caps that he and his boy, now Viscount Perceval, wore. Also, the dowager Countess of Egmont was sitting in the home that had been hers for so many years and would, so reporters told Fred Perceval, refuse to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Toughest Viscount | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...correspondents why Der Alte Feldmarschall sent only the frostiest expression of official regret through German Ambassador at Paris, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. Meanwhile German news organs indignantly recalled how Victor Foch had "rubbed it in." Facts are that when Herr Matthias Erzberger entered the Allied Generalissimo's staff car at the head of the German Armistice Commission to sue for peace, he was pointedly ignored by Foch who remarked to his staff: "Who are these gentlemen? What do they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Glory to Foch | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...knows where Hurd could have collected them all−were shields and banners of Yale, Harvard and the University of Winnemac, of the Elks, the Oddfellows, the Moose, the Woodmen, of the Rotarians. the Kiwanians, and the Zenith Chamber of Commerce, with a four-sheet poster of the Revelation car. Fran would have sneered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tycoon | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...flattering group of carpet knights, and while Sam "ran over" to Zenith for a disillusioning visit, Fran succumbed to the blandishments of an Austrian Jew. Sam forgave her, but made her "travel," only to discover that "if there is anything worse than the aching tedium of gazing out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tycoon | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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