Word: low-slung
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...girl (Cecilia Parker) because he has given her verses by that renegade, Algernon Charles Swinburne. When he believes that she has spurned his love, Richard samples his first kisses and his first drinks in company with a fast-stepping lady from New Haven, who wears flounces, high-laced shoes, low-slung garters...
...many a time as we chugged along at the good rate of 10-15 miles per hour, What good would the 90-mile-per-hour potentialities of the new, low streamliners have done us here? In this long stretch of uninhabited desert with no water, gas or oil for 135 miles, how much of a handicap would have been ours in one of the 1935 model automobiles, whose low-slung bodies, according to one advertisement, "make entrance and exit very easy because the running board is brought in close proximity to the curb...
Explanation of this pioneering boomlet : Every S. S. is guaranteed to do between 85 and 90 m. p. h., between 20 and 25 miles per gallon, comes equipped with extremely low-slung English four-seater bodies having slide-open "sunshine roofs," cocktail trays opening behind the front seat and other Mayfair niceties. Finally an S. S. has won the premier award at every Concours d'Elégance Automobile held for the past four years in Cannes, Deauville and Biarritz...
...public wants to buy"-a small two-seater monoplane distinctly and purposely suggestive of the famed old "Model T" Ford automobile. He named it the "Sky Car," admitting (hoping) that "the public, in its usual fashion, is likely ... to dub it something less formal." The Sky Car is a low-slung, truncated cabin suspended beneath a cantilever wing, with a tail assembly mounted at the end of an outrigger framework. The engine is a 75-h. p. pusher, with the propeller whirling between the members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under...
Early one evening last week a Coast Guard searchlight fell upon a barge unloading somewhere near Ambrose Light-ship in lower New York Bay. A speed boat cast off from the barge slipped away toward New Jersey. A low-slung power cruiser cast off, headed for the Brooklyn shore. The barge...