Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little man listened, nodded to himself, strolled out into the sunshine, entered an opulent motor, ordered himself whisked to his sumptuous yacht, Lydonia. He was content. The Hermann Kotzschmar Organ was not out of tune-and he was Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, unrivaled pulp-Moloch, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post. (See p. 26.) Mr. Curtis' taste in, and love of, music fits harmoniously with that of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Bok. Father and son-in-law, are, needless to say, chief patrons of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
...Department of Commerce last week revised its figures on world motor car consumption, announced that there were 24,000,000 in use. This in nowise alters the proportions of one car to every 71 persons in the world, to every six in the U. S. (TIME...
...made public a "last word" in civic modernity-an official airplane for Mayor Boess of Berlin. Germany is tightly sewn together by air routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
...Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. operates subways, surface cars, elevated trains, motor busses, taxicabs. There are elevators in its buildings. Its messengers pedal bicycles. Its directors ride horseback, sail boats, drive roadsters. Last week it began operating airplanes. The Company had not only contracted for the airmail route between Philadelphia and Washington, D. C., but undertook a passenger service as well. This seventh link* in the country's airmail chain is 123 miles long, from Philadelphia Navy Yard to Hoover Field. Seven passengers made the first trip, among them Airplane Designer Anthony H. G. Fokker of Holland and New York...
...high-spirited, sartorially perfect, fundamentally virile, troubled himself far more over purchasing a new racing car, than with rumors that the French police had barely thwarted an attempt upon his life. While his Queen, Victoria Engénie, shopped in the Rue de la Paix, the King's motor attained a speed so terrific on the broad Champs Elysées that he distanced not only his official escort but also several motorcycle policement, who, not knowing his identity, gave chase with intent to accomplish his arrest...