Word: flivvered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry I. Gilbert is eminently qualified to speak on contemporary music, since his name has stood among the best of American composers for nearly forty years. What his attitude toward the more drastic of modern modern compositions will be is hardly problematical. The rancous Symphonie Mechanique and Flivver Ten million are aberrations, extremes from which he is guarded by a native good taste. The cacaphoniesof the musical rebels of Europe and America have already reached the verge of sounds that would come even within a physical definition of music; they are, furthermore, of an international or rather unnational character, while...
Having toured 5,000 miles of Europe in his "vest-pocket airplane," the Yankee Doodle, George Kern Jr., son of a meatpacker, retired, returned to the U. S. last fortnight to show the incredulous an air flivver which weighs only 575 pounds, costs $2,100, flies for three cents a mile, crosses the Alps...
...flivver planes, too; is getting more...
Among U. S. air-flivver owners...
Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...