Word: horseless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best of the deal...
Died. Reginald William Rives, 86, leading figure in the dying patrician sport of coaching, member of the Coaching Club since 1883; in Manhattan. Stubborn Socialite-Horseman Rives resisted vigorously as newfangled horseless carriages crowded coaches off the streets, won a 1906 lawsuit in which he charged that an auto had ruined the nerves of one of his horses. He became a gallant last-survivor of the era of beaver hats and smartly tooled four-in-hands...
...Hartford, Conn., owners of 80 antique automobiles donned linen dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
...company overinvested in bicycles, lost out. Unperturbed, Durant got control of the tottering Flint Wagon Works, sold $10,000,000 worth of stock to exploit its rights to manufacture a horseless carriage, designed by David Buick. He made millions in a few years, laid grandiose plans to take over the lusty young auto industry. He almost did, by merging five companies-Henry Ford was the most important holdout-into General Motors...
...Dear Mr. Hall: I am glad to hear that your horseless carriage is giving you the satisfaction that I felt sure it would. As to the tires, you need have no concern. They are made of real rubber and are five-eighths of an inch thick...