Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street the name Cord means a low-slung automobile, rare and swank, which is entirely too expensive for him to own. To that class which can afford the car, the name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn...
...clenching the jaws in sleep, thrusting the tongue against the teeth, lip biting, biting on the ear pieces of eyeglasses, biting paperclips, pencils, fountain pens; Occupational habits: thread-biting in sewing, pin-&-needle habit (dressmakers), holding nails in teeth, biting the tips of cigars, clarinet and tuba playing, holding cord between teeth; Miscellaneous habits which mark teeth characteristically include: pipe smoking, using.cigaret holder, chewing cigars, opening tops of bottles with teeth, cracking nuts, chewing bones (Dr. Ryan fondly gnaws the meat out of lobster shells), mouth breathing, thumb sucking, orange sucking...
Because Banker Bickell's passport was in Toronto, Pan American was forced to refuse them. Undismayed, Speculator Smith phoned his great and good friend, Motormaker Errett Lobban Cord, who assured him that an American Airlines mail plane could pick up the passport at Buffalo N. Y. Banker Bickell called his secretary, had a plane chartered to fly the passport there. Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp. The post office was persuaded to scramble through six sacks of air mail to fish it out. Back at the Pan American offices. Operator Smith...
...vertebrae in the back of the rats which Dr. MacDonald banged correspond to those in the small of a woman's back where sympathetic nerves emerge from the spinal cord to connect with the sex organs. "Lesions" in other spinal areas do not produce barrenness...
...paralyzed son from Peiping to Chicago, he first had to arrange for supplies of electricity to operate the respirator's pump. Last week everything was in order. The respirator containing the young man was rolled into an elevator of the Union Medical College Hospital. The electric extension cord to the motor was disconnected. The elevator dropped to the ground level where another extension cord restarted the motor. When the invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator was connected to this mobile supply, and the truck...