Word: cars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everybody that knows me knows that I am unable to operate an automobile. I never tried it in my life, and, what is more, I am never going to try it; and the statement that I was running the car myself down Broadway at fifty miles an hour is just as absurd as the other part...
Midlanders wondered about the people Nominee Smith had around him as he passed through the land on the private car "St. Nicholas" (called "Santa Claus" by the newsmen). Most of the people who accompany Hoover have national reputations. Most of the Smith "traveling cabinet" needed introduction...
Another spokesman is Mrs. Caroline O'Day, a vigorous, socially smart lady from Rye, N. Y., who has long been active in the New York Democracy and now is acting state chairman. Leaving Oklahoma City, she stepped to the observation car railing and explained: "Mrs. Smith is so modest that she doesn't like to make speeches. ... She hopes to see you all again when, we all hope, she will be the First Lady of the Land...
...hundred medium-sized motor cars are less ponderous than its weight of 260 tons. Taller than a five story house (55 feet), the single shaft of stone is too large to be carried by any railway car in Italy. Yet last week Signer Benito Mussolini commanded that the monolith be moved to Rome, there to become "The Mussolini Monument." How to obey...
Fortunately the Carrara precipice overhangs blue Mediterranean wavelets. A ship can carry what a railway car cannot. And from the Mediterranean a ship, not too big, may ascend the River Tiber, even to Eternal Rome...