Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great "Triumphal Car" by Durer, dated 1522, was one of the woodcuts planned by the Emperor Maximilian to glorify his family and achievements. Closely allied to it are the twelve proofs of subjects from Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death", which make the set in the Fogg Museum one of the few full ones in the world. The "Dance of Death" was a favorite subject in the north of Europe during the Middle Ages, and Holbein's series of woodcuts, his most important work in this style, in one of the finest representations...
...Leon Toral, a dynamite bomb was exploded under the locomotive of the special train of Mexico's provisional president, Sefior Emilio Portes Gil (TIME, Dec. 10). The engine was derailed, one fireman was killed, and two coaches left the track. President Portes Gil descended unhurt from his salon car, walked forward to the locomotive, shrugged his broad shoulders and remarked: "The revolution star is in luck...
...rainy half hour R. L. McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...
...ordinary night express from London pulled into smoky Newcastle, H. R. H. emerged from a common-first class sleeping car, accompanied only by Sir Godfrey Thomas, his private secretary. Together they tramped over to the Station Hotel, unwelcomed, unescorted, and there they took a room and sitting room, bathed, breakfasted. Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak...
Along the road to Ponca City, Okla., last week, two motorists halted at the sight of an overturned roadster. They found under the car the body of a man, his head pinned beneath a front wheel. On the way to a hospital the injured man died. He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man. With his death passed the second of the three Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch was famed throughout the Southwest, whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was famed throughout the world. Col. Joe Miller, onetime head of ranch and show, was found dead...