Word: modelings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S Letters Editor herewith gives himself a richly merited rebuke for an unpardonable anachronism. Since the Model S Stinson, few commercial passenger ships have been trimotored...
...Shirley Temple than he flew north and west to Kauai, advertised by The Hawaiian Tourist Bureau as the "Garden Isle." There were not many gardens, as far as he could see. Then again he could see little but what the native Louis pointed out from the depths of a Model A which rattled as if it had been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis had a hapa-Pake, hapa-Hawaiian wife...
...that she had just paid at least $350 for not once but seven times. To shrill objections over the telephone Mme Schiaparelli last week had nothing whatever to say. Taking advantage of this sudden publicity, however, style pirates in Manhattan's garment centre set to work duplicating the model not seven but 700 times...
...becoming the dean of doodlebug promoters last week. Don Zeiter is a dour 41-year-old Ohioan so close-mouthed that he will not admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds of 10,000 the past summer. His customary...
Sneaking out of Chicago, the Vagabond spent the weekend traversing Missouri and Kansas and annoying farmers in Model T's and roadside cows with bits of dynamite that went "Bang!" and sometimes "Bang! Bang!" or just "Phfft!" Safe in Colorado Springs, he cheated the most ritzy hotel out of fifty cents for the use of their tennis courts. He headed for what he thought was Albuquerque and grew excited when two girls waved at him from a train that was chugging up a mountain. He followed the train sixty miles, only to discover he was going East...