Word: compartmentized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The New Standard models have a new engine with 23 per cent more horse-power, and an improved chassis frame. The bodies have been made more spacious, and all closed models have flat floors in the rear compartment, eliminating the ridge which formerly existed. Redesigned dials, behind concave glass that...
Mr. Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but...
So loath was onetime President Deschanel of France to leave the privacy of his own railway compartment that in 1920, while relieving himself through an open window, he fell out of the train in his pajamas and ruined his political career. No such clumsy timidity bothers the little Tsar of...
Over & over right-wing newspapers kept demanding how these things could have gone on without official protection. Stavisky parallels were easy to find. Chief Inspector Fressard of the Lille police received threats of violent death unless he dropped the case. Two Paris shopkeepers, wanted by the police to tell what...
He was nearing 50 and his long greying hair gave him something of the diabolic appearance of Paganini. He went to Rome with his faithful Princess; in 1865, after he discovered they could not get married, he took minor orders in the Roman Church. But the Abbe Liszt had not...