Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taking a walk one afternoon at 5:00, the President was nearly run down by a Ford delivery truck driven by a Negro. Just as the President was crossing the street between the White House and the Treasury Building, the car swung into the street from Pennsylvania Ave. Two secret service men seized the President by the arms and drew him back. He said nothing...
...Buick and Cole hubcaps, a Grant starter, a Maxwell steering column with Cadillac steering wheel. Pryers into the car's internals might recognize Cadillac transmission and differential, Cadillac upholstery, a Marvel carburetor from some ancient Buick, an oiling system off a 1910 Fiat, Bosch ignition from a 1908 Rourain, Ford connecting rods, and beneath all, the chassis of a prehistoric Empress...
...When Abraham Lincoln, with a bullet in his head, crumpled slow ly into his chair in Ford's Theatre one April night, three men carried him across the street to a little house opposite. It was the house of William Peterson, a tailor. The President lay there all night, and all night his blood seeped into the square feather pillow under his head...
...Author. Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford, caricatured above, edits The Trans-Atlantic Review (Paris). He is 53. In 1917 he fought for Britain as a second lieutenant. Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope...
...Holmes, who spoke recently at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on stage and screen censorship, was requested to change the date of his lecture because the midyear period would prevent many students from attending the meeting who would have been present under other circumstances...