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Word: clavilux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...costume and black busby of the Scots Guards. A cinema showed, while a voice told, how Studebakers can tumble down a hill, be righted and driven off; how they can hurtle over bumps without capsizing or breaking springs. A jacked-up Hupmobile lit with a clavilux raced against a pastoral landscape conveying a dreamlike blonde who pretended to shift gears and then stared at the crowd, not replying to youths, flushed by dinner, who requested a ride. A horrible robot with red eyes and a death-green face demonstrated Rockne placards to the accompaniment of diabolic roaring and swaying. People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Showdown | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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