Word: flivvers
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...Lawrence Sperry's Messenger Plane at the Detroit Aviation races of 1922, he pronounced it possible to build such small planes in production more cheaply than his own well-known product. Ever since, frequent rumors have credited the great manufacturer as planning the construction of an army of "flivver"' airplanes to make flying as popular as automobiling. But the Fords are wiser than to imagine that this is immediately possible. They are, indeed, in aviation, but not building airplanes, nor trying to popularize them...
...Kansas, William Allen White, who stood up on an anti-Klan flivver and matched himself against both Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor, ran third in the tri-partite race. Said he afterwards of the odd tens of thousands of people who sup. ported him: "They are good people. They deserved a better candidate...
...that the Administration assumed no responsibility for General Dawes's appointment, but appointed him because the Reparations Commission had asked for him. In other words, the President took the position of assuming no responsibility for General Dawes if his work on the Reparations Commission proved to be a flivver, but placed himself in a position to seize for the Republican Party credit for the appointment, if General Dawes succeeded. Is that courageous or intelligent foreign policy...
...SHOW-OFF?This picture of a flivver brain with Rolls Royce ambitions is still being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize...
...NERVOUS WRECK-The inspiriting effect of a flivver and of faith on a neurasthenic youth who goes, for farcical purposes, to the wide open spaces of the flannel shirt...