Word: packards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly, is careful with his money and reads Shakespeare. He dislikes romantic roles and thinks the best picture he ever played in was The Big Parade...
Naturally War Minister Feng could not resist the temptation to preach his favorite principles, last week, to the new Nationalist Government and to President and Mrs. Chiang Kaishek. Whether the President will hereafter go marketing every day in his armoured Packard car remained to be seen. But the whole Government paid strictest attention as Marshal Feng developed the thesis of Spartan endeavor against a common enemy-JAPAN...
...will have been made & sold this year. Pratt & Whitney (Wasp & Hornet radial motors) is the next largest motor maker, with 1,200 output this year. Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. makes V-type motors for its own planes; Fairchild Aviation Corp. is almost ready to market its Caminez radial engine. Packard and Velie, among motor car engine makers, have modified their motors for flying...
...tomorrow the fruit of earnest conferences, intricate bookkeeping, and subtle diplomacy will drop dead ripe into the lap of many an undergraduate. From the man who makes a four hour glide to New Haven in his Packard to the seven passengers of an especially resurrected 1920 Ford all have spent a considerable time in a contemplation of ways and means...
...drawn for magazine covers, and snapped one day on the beach by a newsreel photographer. Louis J. Selznick, then Napoleon of producers, starred her; later she met William Randolph Hearst and joined his company, the Cosmopolitan. Now with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she plays golf, stutters when excited, drives a Packard roadster, has a bulldog named inevitably, Buddy. On the lot a butler and cook give her lunch in a $35,000 stucco bungalow; she gets dressed in a room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles...