Word: flivvered
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...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...
...from Wabash College (Indiana) in 1900, secured an M. A. in 1904. His thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...
...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...minute's flivver-ride...
...rose fever. At 4:30 p. m., Justice and Mrs. Sanford of the U. S. Supreme Court called. For dinner Mr. and Mrs. Stearns appeared. At 9:30 the cook reported that the cold water tap was emitting steam. Mr. William Buist, local plumber, was summoned. He arrived en flivver with his tools, but was refused admittance by the Marines until his summoning had been verified. Correspondents said that the Marines were suspicious of him because he arrived with his tools instead of coming empty-handed and going back for his tools...