Word: daimler
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...harassed Director of the Royal Household, gesturing vaguely at a huge scroll dotted with the great parade's order of march. "Why do you keep talking of elephants? Have you any idea what an elephant eats? There will be no elephants. We've added a new Daimler to the 60 cars in the royal garage and that will be quite sufficient...
...first time since she came down with a bad case of sciatica in February, Queen Mary, 82, had a little outing: she was driven around in her green Daimler to see the crocuses in the parks near her home at Marlborough House...
...Safety. The reparations agreement was made on the optimistic assumption that Germany, under four-power control, would be administered as an economic unit. After it became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making...
...long black-and-green Daimler, sporting the British royal crest on its radiator, drew up to a doorway on London's Basil Street one day last week. Out stepped a silver-haired lady in a flowered saucepan hat, to stride regally through the swinging doors. It was the 100th birthday of Harrods, one of the world's great department stores, and 81-year-old Queen Mary, a customer for more than 40 years, thought it a proper time to drop...
...years since Daimler invented the internal combustion engine and adapted it to personalized transportation back in 1887, there has been no essential change in automobile design. People still use twice as much space on the road as the car requires, because today's operator cannot see how much room he needs . . . [He] skids off the road in his front-end-heavy blunderbus and involuntarily kills and maims more than a million people inside or outside...