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Apropos of this paragraph: I read it to my wife (we are Jewish) who recently was thrown by an automobile on our principal thorofare, and who, contrary to your innuendo, made no fuss when she discovered that she had no injuries beyond a few bruises; that, even though the motorist was traveling along entirely beyond a reasonable rate of speed. Just yesterday she related her experience to a neighbor, who embraces the Christian faith, and this neighbor asked her hastily and excitedly, "Did you get anything"? and added, "I would not have let him get away with...
...needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude oil-almost any oil will do. The Foos engineers maintained that their new contrivance was so perfected that even buttermilk, when introduced to its cylinder, would explode with sufficient violence to propel a stranded motorist from a wayside farm to the nearest fuel station...
...oldtime wooden covered bridge is a U. S. institution. New England in particular abounds with specimens. Narrow, dark, rickety, they stand indefinitely; they vex the speedy motorist, he is obliged to slow up and turn on his lights. The mechanistic 20th century has been unable to figure out exactly why these bridges have covers. Girls from Northampton have asked youths from New Haven and Cambridge: "Why?" and been told that it was to prevent horses from becoming frightened and jumping in the river...
...Motorist Parry steer with only one hand while setting a world speed record...
Thrifty, the grocer was still tending store when, two hours later, a motorist entered to make purchases. Hospitable, the grocer engaged his customer in conversation. Confiding, the customer let fall that his name was Straight. Quick-witted, the grocer asked if he was Allen Straight. Yes, he was. . . . Mrs. Straight was dying in Colorado...