Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal for big business, the one percent of our population which owns one third of our wealth. The Du Ponts will be on the right side whichever party wins. They are 'sitting pretty'; and it's worth to them all they pay for it. Business is a two car train. Salesman Smith is selling seats in his car, and advertises the added attraction of a rack for the hip flash on the side of the bench to obviate the necessity of having to stoop down to get it from under the bench; otherwise, business might as well ride...
...companion was John Pierpont Morgan.* Not until the cables flashed MORGAN did men of caution and property recognize that the story had really broken. Only then were they sure that final Reparations settlement will now be made, after ten years of piddling with approximations. After luncheon a purring motor car conveyed Chancellor Churchill to the station, where he impetuously entrained for London. Another car carried the Agent General to confer lengthily with Emile Moreau. Governor of the Bank of France. Rumors from Berlin told that Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, stern, forthright President of the Reichsbank was expected momentarily to leave...
...ride with him in the forest of St. Germain-en-Laye. The gigolo said he had sold an automobile to Mr. Neumann. Perhaps Mrs. Neumann also would like to purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he made no romantic overtures. Instead, he brusquely demanded all her jewels and money. Mrs. Neumann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore her clothes, beat her, threw her out of the automobile. As Mrs. Neumann started to walk back to Paris she distinctly...
This vehicle, potent, has two seats at the rear in which soldiers squat, holding rifles with fixed bayonets. Two more soldiers cling to each side of the car by means of hand grips, while their free hands grasp the hilts of ugly, blue steel repeating pistols...
...Henry tells the one and only lucky typewriter mistake. "Her typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car," wrote O. Henry in his short story, "Springtime a la Carte." . . . How, unable to find her sweetheart in New York . . . her money running low . . . she earned her meals by typing menus . . . and hammered out instead of "Dandelion Greens with Hard-Boiled Egg," "Dearest Walter with Hard-Boiled Egg." And fortunately "Dearest Walter" wandered into the restaurant, found his name on the menu . . . and they lived happily ever after...