Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Square a scattered crowd of Dowager Ladies, shop clerks and students waved their hats and handkerchiefs, shouted, "Speach." The nominee would not speak. The cars moved on. Into the line of march darted a small car bearing across its windshield "Al Smith." Loud were the cheers, and long...
...largest donor was Nominee Smith's friend since childhood, William F. Kenny, multi-millionaire contractor of Brooklyn, N. Y., owner of the private car St. Nicholas on which the Nominee has toured the country. His donations totaled...
...York State, it is no great crime to spit in a subway car or on the street. It is no great crime to wake sleeping citizens with ribald songs, to walk on the grass. According to the State statutes these are only misdemeanors, minor offences which are not felonies. For a misdemeanor, a man may spend at most a year in jail, pay a $500 fine...
...fresh recurrence of wild gun play on the part of officers of the peace comes nearer home with the assault on a Harvard student by a policeman of three weeks standing. The complications of violated traffic signals and the search for a stolen car happily caused no more damage than the puncturing of a hat. But a change of a few degrees in the course of the bullet would have meant death...
Maitre Annet-Baden, Paris lawyer, drove his car up steep Montmartre. How the old machine coughed and sputtered and how slowly it proceeded! Unabashed, Maitre Annet-Baden was well pleased at its performance; for he was a competitor in a race to see who could climb the hill most slowly and he had won by going at 1 mile per hour...