Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Police tried to trace a Red motor...
Speeding north by train and motor car to Dehra Dun, His Excellency began to "rest" by setting out from there on horseback into the jungle covered foothills of the Himalayas, mightiest of mountains...
...feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where he was met by a motor car and whisked 14 miles to the comfortable Viceregal Lodge at Simla...
Last week the British Viscount who thus champions defeated Hungary before the victorious Allies, sent his son to Budapest, to accept the nation's thanks. As young Esmond Harmsworth approached the Capital in an open motor car the demonstration in his honor became so fervent and spontaneous that he was fairly mobbed by hearty wenches in bright peasant costumes who roughly seized and thoroughly kissed his hand...
...vestige of pique at the enforced omission remained in the mind of Esmond Harmsworth, next day, when he accepted for Lord Rothermere a made-in-Hungary automobile with a chassis of re-enforced silver and a body overlaid with hammered gold. The donor, Herr Franz Bert, pioneer Hungarian motor manufacturer, was reported to have spent upon his well-meant if gaudy gift...