Word: motorwoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many months Moscow citizens and U. S. visitors have learned to look sharp when street car No. 56 swung around a curve. At the throttle of No. 56 was buxom Motorwoman Alexandra Semeena, and Alexandra was a caution. Disdaining brakes, she made elderly Reds leap for their lives as she clanged through the streets. Heaven help the pushcart that, dawdled in her path. Last week, a month after the event, Moscow papers reported the end of street...
...Motorwoman Alexandra had permitted a personable young man to ride the quarterdeck of No. 56 with her. With throttle open, brakes off, they whizzed downhill from Dzerjinski Place to Theatre Place while traffic scattered and passengers clung screaming to their seats. At the bottom of the hill the car jumped the tracks so violently that its body was torn from the trucks. One woman was killed, six persons gravely injured. Alexandra Semeena, built of stern stuff, was unscathed. Inspectors discovered that the brakes were in perfect condition, had not even been applied...
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