Word: gears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek might lend His Holiness a few fast bombing planes for an air raid on Tibet's forbidden capital of Lhasa. Last week in Peiping the Panchen Lama chartered a special train, loaded it with food, cash, military supplies arid his elaborate religious gear and chuffed off toward Inner Mongolia, whence he would have to proceed some 2,000 miles by caravan to Lhasa...
While Chancellor Dollfuss, Major Fey and Under-Secretary Baron Karl Karwinsky were being trapped in the State Apartments, Vienna's chief radio station RAVAG was falling in the hands of eight desperate youths in Austrian Nazi gear. They had burst in, shot the manager and forced the chief announcer to tell all Austria in a trembling voice: "It is one minute and 30 seconds past one p. m. We have to inform you that the Dollfuss Cabinet has resigned and Anton Rintelen has taken over the Government...
Thrifty Scots much prefer a drawing room to the expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch...
...chance to drive it. After learning to drive in the morning, he won the race in the afternoon, covered a mile in 60 seconds. For the next 16 years his round, good-humored face, invariably accented by a cigar which he smoked at the angle of a steering-gear shaft, was a symbol for fast driving in an era when auto-racing rivalled baseball as the U. S. national sport. By the time he retired from racing in 1918, Barney Oldfield had held every dirt track record for distances up to 50 miles...
...three-day trial brought out that Don's car had no lamps, license, horn. Sportsman Don assumed full responsibility for taking the fatal trial run, said that he had done so at the suggestion of his young mechanic, that he knew that the steering gear was faulty...