Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to his high tea at Cliveden, Motor Man Ford sojourned idly in London, delaying his projected tour of the British Isles, but found time to extemporize to the press as follows...
...bomb was fitted with a clock work mechanism timed to explode at the instant when His Majesty was scheduled to pass. Kings, however, are too experienced to risk their lives by keeping to a time table known to every assassin. Therefore His Majesty was a good ten minutes motor ride distant when the bomb exploded. Though prudent, he is no coward. "Drive on," he said with compressed lips when told of the explosion, "Keep to the original route, through the Piazza Giulio Cesare...
...moments later the royal motor passed slowly over cobble stones still wet with blood drawn by the bomb. A pandemonium of cheering rose about His Majesty: "Viva il Re! . . . Glory to Savoy! [the Royal House] . . . Live! Long live the King...
Except for trees which in 15 centuries have grown thickly upon it, the road was sufficiently smooth for motor driving. Directly in line with the recently discovered great causeway running southward from Coba past Lake Xkanha, this road seems part of a great Mayan passage towards Ixil. At the road's end is a flight of stone steps going up a dilapidated pyramid 70 feet high. At its top Mayan priests had the habit of tearing the hearts from living human sacrifices, of offering the warm and bloody things to an idol, and of heaving the maimed bodies into...
...customary discussion of younger generation v. older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice...