Word: motorcar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elizabeth speaks French and German, can drive a motorcar or a speedboat, swims expertly. Like other Britons, she gets 44 clothing-ration coupons a year (about enough for one outfit...
...Bermuda, in the sunny days before the war, a motorcar was a monstrosity. The soothing clop-clop of patient horses on the bright, white coral roads and the occasional cling of a cyclist's bell took the place of whining tires and peremptory blares. Black coachmen were unfailingly polite and the tranquil roads were a pleasure to walk. Five years ago a Governor General resigned in a huff because the Colonial Assembly would not let him have a car for personal use. Exceptions to the rigid ban: fire engines, ambulances, garbage trucks...
...years he carried on a correspondence in Greek with the late erudite Lord Haldane. He reads voraciously (30 to 40 books a week, friends say), relaxes with detective stories. On most days he walks three miles, has never owned a motorcar...
...that moment the loud approaching sound of a motorcar was heard in the drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush...
Under the impact of the shows, run on successive days (with new motorcar model exhibitions as a sideshow-see p. 76), the eyes and pencils of 500 newsmen reeled. For in switching a big part of their vast productive machinery to making implements of war, G.M. and Ford (like Chrysler) have gone in for a more bewildering variety of products than they ever made before. News stories of the two shows were crammed with lists and statistics, from pinhead-sized ball bearings to four-motored bombers, passed over the new automobiles with a once-over-lightly...