Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accident or Plot? One group of spokesmen for Henry Ford announced that he regards the crash merely as an accident caused by a drunken driver or a roadhog. The other spokesmen said that Mr. Ford believes a deliberate attempt was made to kill him. The details of the crash, the secrecy in which it was kept for three days, the elaborate precautions in bringing Mr. Ford home from the hospital (two ambulances, two stretchers), the heavily increased guard about the Ford home?all tend to confirm the plot theory, which Mr. Ford is said to have dropped...
...order to avoid publicity, Mr. Ford remained at home for two days before being taken to the Henry Ford Hospital at Dearborn. He had suffered a slight concussion of the brain, several deep cuts, innumerable bruises, no broken bones. He recovered gradually, painfully...
Secret Kept. Two able-bodied young workmen, who were trying out a new Ford, saw the car go over the embankment. The police were informed. The judge and the lawyers at the Sapiro-Ford trial (see p. 23), Mr. Ford's family and intimates, several doctors and employes at the hospital knew that the richest man in the U. S. was as near death as he had ever been. Yet, so well did all these people keep their secret that it was not until three days after the crash that headlines throughout the land screamed: "FORD HURT IN MURDER PLOT...
...Night Bride (Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford). On her wedding night, her father locked her up in the ship's stateroom with the wrong man. Since he wanted to be absolutely certain of ridding himself of his expensive daughter, he refused to unlock the door till the night had passed and the ship had sailed far into the sea. The mistake turned out to be one of those fortunate coincidences in which the ideal mating is accomplished by farce. The film is not so fortunate. Seasickness is the big laugh...
...without rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many liaisons; a social-climbing physician whose heart is in interior decorating; a reportorial dandy; a gangster's girl and their "oozy" baby?are other marionettes in this smart book for which so eminent a critic as Ford Madox Ford has risked an "admirable . . . absolutely astonishing...