Word: minx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less unique but still popular off-shoot of the imported transportation mania is the cult of the little car. The little car can be anything from an Austin to a Renault or Volkswagen (never a Hillman Minx, of course); it has unusual features, such as the engine being in back (which makes for question-provoking louvres where the trunk lid should be), or turn signals that point out from the door posts instead of blinking from the rear fenders, lending a quaint, Old World flavor. The real virtue of the little car, of course, lies just in its being little...
...teapots and under-footmen, could fold a table napkin into a water lily, and the young people adored him. Alas, he adored one of the young people, the Honorable Isobel Lintern, a rather dishonorable hussy. With blind folly, Shrewsbury threw away his perfect character in Merryns for the wretched minx. Embittered and ruined, he became porter at a low pub. How he buttled back from this social abyss to become a perfect butler in Manhattan is a story which will bring tears to the eyes of that dwindling body of citizens who have at heart the care and preservation...
...wives were mere childbearers, purchased from their fathers; only courtesans and homosexuals knew the joys of courtship. In the later Roman Empire, courting seems to have been simply the "pursuit of the other man's wife, conducted as a sport." Though St. Jerome complains that the 4th-century minx had some shockers up her sleeve ("Her upper garment sometimes falls ... to show her naked shoulders, and as if she would not be seen, she covers that in all haste which voluntarily she showed"), he has no light to shed on what was up the gentleman's. Courting...
...open-throttle British auto race for the $40 million export market to the U.S., Rootes Motors' hard-driving Sir William Rootes (Hillman Minx, Humber, Rover, Sunbeam-Talbot) had already knocked Austin out of second place. Last week Sir William claimed that he had overtaken Lord Nuffield,* was now shipping more cars to the U.S. than any other British maker. His total: 4,942 Rootes cars exported in the first half...
Rootes's bestseller in the U.S. is his Hillman Minx, a small "economy" car (four-door sedan: $1,699). But Sir William is betting heavily on a new, more expensive sports model: the fast, sporty Sunbeam-Talbot Alpine. First shown in the U.S. last April, the low-cut Alpine later clocked 120 m.p.h. in Belgium's Jabbeke "flying mile" run, and last month chalked up a perfect score in the grueling Alpine Rally endurance test (2,000 miles through 31 mountain passes, five countries). Its engine is basically the same as the Sunbeam-Talbot "90" that last year...