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Word: flivvered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rawboned, rangy, veteran Canadian woodsman is Norman Charles Phillips, 24-year-old reporter for the Toronto Star. Fortnight ago the Star sent Norman Phillips, driving an old flivver, north to Sudbury to cover the escape of two German prisoners from a nearby concentration camp. Phillips stayed five days, saw the prisoners safely rounded up, wrote his story, headed back toward Toronto. Nearing home he met a fair-haired man in grey trousers and blue coat, walking toward him along the highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newsman's Break | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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