Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prison and five jails have lodged "Uncle" Remus since his 1924 conviction on bootlegging charges. From headquarters at Death Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...
...Duke's private motor car, bearing his emblem and crest, was seized and driven through the streets, while the unsuspecting populace cheered two students dressed as the Duke and Duchess of York, then froze with horror as the "Royal Pair" thumbed their noses...
Marshal Chang is the self-proclaimed defender of foreigners in China, is known to be subsidized by Great Britain and Japan. His troops are the best in China, well drilled, equipped with guns from his own arsenals. Likewise the concubines, the motor cars, the palaces of Chang Tso-lin are the best in China. His might is the only right in North China. Despatches from correspondents of the New York Times and London Times agreed that at the very moment when Senator Bingham and Chang Tso-lin were sipping tea, Marshal Chang's officers were busy with a well...
Lamed in his right shoulder by a motor smash, an attack of neuritis and overmuch work, Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra departed his audience last week for an 18-month vacation. It was the end of his 15th season in the city of old families and new gossip. The auditorium crashed with more than perfunctory hand-clapping...
...since Queen Marie of Rumania crossed the land has there been such a transcontinental spectacle in the U. S. One hundred leather-lunged, semi-nude runners jog out of Los Angeles. Judges, timekeepers, trainers, newspapermen, wives, best girls, small brothers jostle along behind the joggers in an enormous motor cavalcade...