Word: detours
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Threading his way through congested Sunday traffic near Chicago last week, many a motorist with an automobile radio heard a voice interrupt the program with such comments as: "All motorists from Joliet bound for points east of Hammond should use U. S. Highway No. 6 to avoid a detour on Route No. 30 between New Lenox and Frankfort...
After 21 hours Senator Borah, who can not sleep well on trains and will not fly, completed a long detour around Pennsylvania's floods, detrained wearily at Youngstown, Ohio. There were seven inches of snow. There were 75 greeters to meet him. There was a room in Youngstown's second-best hotel. There was a dinner of Young Republicans, attended by about half the expected number of guests. There was a police escort. There was a speech in Stambaugh Auditorium...
...days Mr. Morgan rides alone in the rear of an open car. On bad days he uses a closed car, sits up front with his chauffeur. Usually their route is direct. But this, said the New Yorker, is the season of the year when Mr. Morgan & chauffeur make a detour, slow down almost to a stop as they pass through Sea Cliff so they can see a Mr. Young's superb blossoming plum tree...
...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
...meet, which begins at 3.30, will follow a route slightly different from that of previous years. Beginning as usual near the Larz Anderson Bridge, the harriers will go up the right-hand side of the river but instead of taking in Cemetery hill, they will detour below it; road construction necessitating the change. the runners will finish at the Newell Boat House...