Word: corded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duesenberg. A Duesenberg motor car guaranteed for 15 years, capable of 120 m.p.h. if desired, equipped with body according to individual order-this car, to sell at $18,000 and to be the highest priced car in the world, was last week's announcement of President E. L. Cord of the Auburn Automobile Co. He has just purchased the Duesenberg Motors Co., which Fred S. Duesenberg, automotive genius, racer, created.* Inventor Duesenberg will be vice president of the new concern-Duesenberg, Inc., which will be entirely separate from the Automobile...
...Often, too, Miss Browne managed to return some difficult shot only to have it called out, and on these occasions Mlle. Lenglen sometimes pointed out to the referee that she wished her friend to have the point. In one unfortunate game two of Suzanne's drives hit the net cord. Miss Browne won this game. The rest, and the match, Mlle. Lenglen took, 6-1, 6-0?the women's international hard court championship...
...which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided for $100,000,000 worth of cord tire fabric for delivery in the next ten years and gave the Goodrich people a partnership in the Hightower interests. This is the most important industrial deal Georgia has ever seen, and almost certainly the largest textile transaction ever made anywhere...
...eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when it breaks into portentous periods, is solemn and his words are chosen from the old school of eloquence and denunciation. Ever and again in previous Congresses he rose to make interminable forensic attacks on the money trust, on the power interests...
...Although printed Dutch words convey a guttural jangle to the English-reading eye, the ample Dutch vocal cord mellows them astonishingly...