Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week after a tour across Africa, "I will never again make that trip without firearms, and I strongly advise against any one else doing so." An Afric native, it appeared, had frightened Mr. & Mrs. Davey by rising up out of tall elephant grass and hurling at their motor car a spear. *George V is Emperor of India alone and King of the remainder of the British Commonwealth of Nations...
...finest motor car smashups in all the World happen at little crossroads in rural France. For one thing there are no speed laws and barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble...
...docked found her interior decoration rather commonplacely Italian, in Renaissance and various provincial styles. The Augustus has not the vast, gloomy, cathedral splendor of the Roma, her sister ship (in hull dimensions only). The Augustus has not the rampant, modernist decore of the new Saturnia, a rival Italian motor ship of the Cosulich Line...
...Eskimo saw a smoke signal across the fjord near Mount Evans, Greenland. Two men went out in a motor boat to investigate. With a flashlight they signaled back: "Hassell safe." Two minutes later the New York Times received the news by wireless. It was one of the fastest handled and most complete scoops in the history of journalism...
...spring, the T. A. T. will put into operation a daily air-rail service between New York and Los Angeles. The founders of the T. A. T. are Clement Melville Keys, president of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc.; Charles Lanier Lawrance, president of Wright Aeronautical Corp.; Gen. William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania Railroad; William Benson Mayo, chief engineer of Ford Motor Co.; and other air-minded potentates (TIME...