Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Breaking Point. In Wichita, Kans., Policeman Max Price, chasing a speeder, ignored it when his hat blew off, kept going when the muffler fell off, didn't pause when the siren went dead, finally quit when his motorcycle caught fire...
Last night, however, was punctured only by an occasional shattered window, and the cries of gamins running through the Yard and Houses collecting treats. Hallowe'en wore a muffler and walked in stocking feet through Cambridge last night...
Here's Your Muffler. The impeccable Jeeves and the peccant Bertie Wooster, P.G.'s most famous characters, do not figure in these stories. Instead, there is the terrible Lord Bodsham, "The Curse of the Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...
...Pekingese picks up her ball on the 18th green and carries it into the clubhouse-should she blast out with a niblick? And there is the predicament of Bingo Little, when his child's nurse, a motherly woman, trails him to an assignation to give him his woolly muffler...
Inventory Item. In Chicago, police received a letter: "I wish to report that. . . I was in Chicago and had my car busted into . . . Someone stole a guitar, 8 lbs. of Brazilian peanuts, four pairs of socks, one shirt, one muffler, six cartons of cigarettes, one dress suit, and twelve cans of sardines' . . . Mrs. J. Webb. P.S.: My husband is missing...