Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger generation, the heroic example of one Edda, daughter of Mussolini who would not stir her little toe without her father's consent, smells sweeter than garlic in this naughty world. To complete the incident of her temptation, picture now one Hispano-Suiza whining to be thrown into high gear, an overpoweringly handsome member of the Black Hand or perhaps the Black Shirt Club, and a glorious Italian moon, that is as glorious a moon as moons in Italy may be. But Edda was not seduced by the promise of a wild ride behind the screaming Stork for necking...
...Coming from Swampscott (cool weather and heavy underwear) to Washington (hot weather and summer gear) the President hurried to consult his throat specialist as a precaution against developing his recurrent "rose fever...
...dishonors are unpleasant to think about; they have an odor in the memory like the faintly sour stench that rises from a trunkful of athletic gear that has been shut up a long time. But everyone remembers, if reluctantly, the baseball scandal of 1919, when certain players of the Chicago "Black Sox" were found with big wads of money under their pillows which a gambler had paid them to "throw" the World's Series. The gambler is now a respected Realtor, but those players ? athletes, as fast and heady as ever spit on a bat ? were ousted from...
...Font interests would manufacture, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. distribute, a new synthetic motor fuel to be called "synthol," made from coal, petroleum or lignite. To burn synthol, a new automobile motor had been devised, the most powerful of its size, very light, needing no gear shift, emitting no poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said Dr. T. A. Boyd, General Motors...
...Manhattan, an empty touring car lounged against a Broadway curb. A man stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid...