Word: horseless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these horseless hunters are young, red-blooded suburbanites who find the sport inexpensive outdoor exercise for fall and winter Sundays. Some are middle-aged beaglers-notably the Buckrams' walrusy Hoffman Nickerson (Harvard '11) and his British bride of a year, whose enthusiasm for beagling dates back to her pigtail days...
...some 46 times faster and correspondingly cheaper. The conventional plowshare costs $4.25, will stand three resharpenings (about 75? apiece). Four Raydex points cost only $3.40, can be thrown away like razor blades and still save the farmer money as well as the trouble of finding a smithy in these horseless days...
...spring of 1896 James Gordon Bennett cabled from Paris instructions to W. C Reick, his editorial representative of the New York Herald, to select a staff member to make a survey of horseless vehicles then under construction in the U. S. and to cover fully the development of motor manufacture and sport in this country as a daily and Sunday feature of the Herald...
...lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
While a band blared before a reviewing stand and a crowd of 3,000 bellowed, two caravans ambled slowly toward each other one day last week across the bare Nebraska prairie near North Platte. First came Pony Express riders, followed by oxcarts, stage coaches, high-wheeled bicycles, "horseless carriages," and finally streamlined automobiles. Filing proudly past, they marked the climax of a ceremony which drew notables from miles around. Immediate reason for the celebration was that workmen had just finished 28 miles of new concrete road. More significant: Nebraska at last had a paved road running from...