Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Popular though his daughters may be, Dean Gauss became at once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
...four-wheeled, not two-wheeled, vehicles that he made his fortune. Like many another far-sighted man who was young when the automobile industry was an infant, he hitched his wagon to the horseless-carriage. In 1898 he went to Europe, brought back two European-made motor cars, sold both at a profit. Then he went to Detroit, came back with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began to "Ask the Man Who Owns One," Alvan Tufts Fuller prospered also. Today he is rumored...
...mature women employees had so much energy that she was a disturbing factor in the placid job of labeling and wrapping bottles. We removed the contention by placing her in charge of the stock and shipping where a new motor coordination is necessary nearly every minute. She uses her leisure in mothering the younger girls in general and in telling them in her way what we tried to tell her in our way about the subjects of the seminars...
...drives through the Vatican gardens? on week days in a two-horsed carriage, on Sundays and holidays in a motor car. In the gardens is a clumsy copy of the French shrine of "Our Lady of Lourdes." When he reaches this shrine, he descends from his vehicle to pray at it for a few moments. Nearby are cages containing his two pets?an eagle and a green parrot. He prefers the parrot, to which he has taught a few phrases. He feeds them each a morsel and then passes on, daily, for a short walk by himself...
Died. Marquis de Viana, Spanish Court Chamberlain, onetime Grand Master of the Horse; in Madrid. Last September he and King Alfonso dashed 300 miles by night in a motor over muddy country roads and dangerous mountain passes, to calm a threatened rebellion in Madrid, where twelve regiments of artillery had mutinied (TIME, Sept...