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...yelled, "Faster, faster!" sits beside most automobile drivers of to-day and her call is no less potent because it is a silent one. The theory, if not the practice, of the idea that travel in the street is the right of the pedestrian and the privilege of the motorist has often been iterated. In an entire nation of increasingly nimble broken field runners there will be found few more ardent supporters of this civic principle than those members of Harvard College who are daily obliged to cross Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

...Maybe that will teach you to keep out of the way of automobiles!" cried the motorist as he drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Austen's limousine was stopped by a cement safety zone, while its glass windows became splinters. A passing motorist rushed him to Westminster Hospital, and next day he was sufficiently recovered to set out for a holiday at Aix-les-Bains, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Austen Gashed | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...Cleveland, one Willie Williams, motorist, rattled over the pot-holed streets, was arrested and fined $10 for having on his car license plates that read "Ohio 1906." (In that year, Ohio's "plates" were brass numerals rivetted on leather pads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canes | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Opportunely, two deaths are recorded. A motorist runs over Rose. Fream, his confidence and his financial ability shaken by the discovery of his physical defect, shoots himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figures of Turf | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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