Word: flivvers
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...fact, that it didn't cause the author any mental effort to write it. Probably he just started writing and wrote easily on, letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went with him. And the sheriff, well, he lost out all around, but then...
...going to reveal the story, I will say, however, that every one who has ever owned, operated, or ridden in one of Mr. Ford's motor vehicles will understand, appreciate, and very likely enjoy the story of Henry and Sally and the versatile flivver that proved its ability to go almost anywhere that a horse could...
...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...
...great heights, engine power and plane speed drop rapidly, yet the most effective fighting must be done at altitudes of 15,000 feet. Lifting somewhat the veil of mystery which shrouds its work, the British Royal Air Force gives news of tiny monoplanes, no bigger than a Mummert flivver, equipped with 320 horsepower and capable of 150 miles an hour with full military equipment at the greatest heights...
Challenging Barbot's supremacy in the "flivver" class for airplanes, Harvey C. Mummert, an engineer of the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. a Garden City, L. I., has built an even smaller machine which has proved entirely successful. The Mummert monoplane is equipped with an ordinary two cylinder motorcycle engine, weighs only 500 pounds with fuel and pilot and has a wing spread of only 20 feet. With its gas tank filled with 19 gallons of fuel, it can cruise for 1,200 miles. The maximum speed is 80 miles per hour. Captain Brooke L. Pierson, an Air Mai pilot...