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Word: phaeton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George B. St. George wore gold tassels. Mrs. John Hay Whitney, sitting with U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, sported her famed, chandeliery diamond earrings. Mrs. Bronson Williams' velveteen jacket was tufted with patent-leather buttons, like the upholstery of a lady's phaeton. Mrs. John W. Stafford carried a Cellophane evening bag exposing her gewgaws. Mrs. Byron C. Foy was completely bareback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Women | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...Spring: Its Nature and Manifestations" was the subject of a short but frantic survey by the CRIMSON of several local institutions for young females. The survey was conducted yesterday in Staff Car No. 2, a snappy Ford Phaeton calculated (and rightly so) to catch the feminine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spring Inspiring to Radcliffe, Means Bock Beer to Wellesley | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

...recreation of Joe Gish was Ephraim di Kahble, conceived in 1935 by a group from the then freshman class. The freshmen rented and furnished a boarding house room for Ephraim di Kahble, inserted an advertisement under his name in the Daily Princetonian offering a free ride in a Lincoln phaeton to the Yale game in New Haven which drew 50 replies, were finally exposed when Ephraim di Kahble advertised in the New York Times for an orange-&-black guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cuthbert Gleep | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Datsun advertisements the happy passengers are whites, even when the entire text is in Japanese. Prices f.o.b. Yokohama: Roadster, Yen 1,775 ($514.75); Phaeton, Yen 1,850 ($536.50) ; Sedan, Yen 1,975 ($572.75).* Advertised mileage: 50 per gallon. Speed: 45 m.p.h. Rueful Manhattan executives of Mitsubishi admit that there is not a single Datsun in North America (Chile has many), offer eagerly to supply a sedan (considered their swankiest model) for $660 at Mitsubishi Co. Ltd., No. 120 Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Awful | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...President Lowell goes about filling his summer "vacation is a phenomenon of the first order. Sport and business mix in equal proportion" is a phenomenon of the first order, sunny hours back-diving from his raft in Cotuit, and speeding ahead of motorcycle cops in his snappy green Buick phaeton (Lowell at the wheel of course). But this summer there was much hot labor moving out of The President's House. For days on end the founder of the Harvard House Plan could be seen carrying bridge-lamps, books, Old Masters, pots and pans out of the Yard like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/30/1933 | See Source »

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