Word: fender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother hissed a "Beat it," out of the side of his mouth without missing a bar of the hymn. The guy beat it, too. So I never was saved. But if it ever happened I'd like Ironside to be in on it. He lays it solid. ROBERT FENDER...
...good bet against the field. Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill trade journal, was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be decided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood's formula: "Drive like the other guy is crazy...
...personal monopolies in salt, shoes, milk, meat and tobacco, paid almost nobody honest wages except the over-sized army of 2,500. He toadied to Washington and, in short, applied the usual formula of Caribbean tyranny. He has an armor-plated Packard car with facsimile field guns for fender lamps, a toothsome white mistress* and their bastard child who has a colonel's rank and colonel's pay. He has been happy but for two annoyances...
...keenest delights of the clear-eyed Harvard man. Let trembling bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy the thrills of brushing a fleeting fender with our coat tails in this pedestrian's paradise. May all schoolgirlish reference to those terrifying automobiles in Harvard Square be dropped forever from the masculine columns of the CRIMSON. F. M. Rivinus...
EDWARD J. FITZPATRICK JR. ROBERT FENDER Del Monte, Calif...