Word: flivvered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politicians to be his first step towards entering the 1928 campaign for the Presidency. The circumstance that he made the Hearst newspapers his vehicle for the dissemination of his change of heart is interpreted as indicating that William Randolph Hearst is about to push the candidacy of the flivver king. . . . Obviously it would have been embarrassing for the publisher of a chain of newspapers, greatly depending upon department store advertising, to appear as the champion of the country's chief exponent of anti-Semitism...
What sent Dr. Patrick hurrying out of his house, into his flivver and into the night, was a telegram asking him to meet a train at the railroad station. Not many trains stop at Marceline, Mo., least of all the ponderous flier that groaned to a halt this night, dropping off brakemen with lanterns and a worried conductor...
Said Composer Converse, whose orthodox repute is established: "I did it just for fun," acknowledging that "Flivver 10,000,000" had been inspired by Composer Arthur Honegger's "Pacific 231," serious-minded interpretation of a locomotive plowing through the Rocky Mountains...
...afternoon last fortnight a battered flivver joggled and clattered over a desert road leading into Tonopah, Nev. Two dusty boys of 19 sat on the seat. They talked now and then but not much. When they reached Tonopah they took some heavy, dirty bags out of their car and locked them up. That evening they walked around the town, which is one big mining camp, showing chunks of glittering rock to the oldtimers. The chunks glittered so brightly and looked so rich that the oldtimers said: "Hell, that ain't gold!" The boys went to bed dubious...
Last week, Conductor Koussevitzky again startled. He accepted for performance next month by his orchestra, "Flivver 10,000,000," subtitled "A Joyous Epic." The opening prologue of this ultramodern symphonic cycle by Frederic S. Converse is "Dawn in Detroit." Of the life of a Ford, Composer Converse then writes, of its building, its romance by the roadside, its collisions, rattlings, wheezings...