Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steps of Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison, looking neither right nor left at staring crowds. He wore a grey baggy suit, a flannel shirt, a soft cap, carried a small paper package. His face was set in hard, unhappy lines. He spoke to no one, as he climbed into a Ford sedan, cringed down in its back seat. The car carried him out of the prison yard for the first time in 43 years...
...guards and two other prisoners the Ford wheeled over the 40 miles to the State Farm. His one rheumy eye (the other, albino, is blind) for the first time saw automobiles, a steamshovel, a road roller, skyscrapers, an airplane in flight. He licked his first ice cream cone, drank his first bottle of ginger ale. His only question: "Aren't there any more horses?" So violently did new sights and sounds impinge upon his prison-warped senses that he was left almost speechless...
...exacting, Dograr leaves, preferring to have six Weber & Heilbroner shirts "in the Manhattan manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand not noted: Author Coates advertises everything but cigars}. Significance: Ford Madox Ford calls this "not the first but the best Dada novel." Dadaism is extinct. Fathered by Painter Francis Picabia, mothered by Poet Tristan Tzara, Dadaism was born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916, when Poet Tzara, 20, thus christened it (in verse) : "Dada is not a literary school. . . . Anonymous...
...nearby ports of entry are not incompatible, as the Government indicated last week by designating both Ford Airport at Dearborn and Grosse Isle Airport near Detroit 15 miles apart. A third gateway for foreign air commerce named last week is Newport, Vt. Thus there are 13 airports of entry in the U. S. - last week's three and Key West, Miami, St. Paul, Albany, San Juan, Seattle, Lake Union (near Seattle), Newark (N. J.), San Diego, Los Angeles (all ports under Los Angeles jurisdiction...
...stamped last week on a model A Ford. The first million took 13 months; the second million six months, 20 days. Third million will take even less time...