Word: phaeton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Phaeton...
...Tucker employed an English type of phaeton, two high-steppers that could trot a mile in less than 2.30 min., and a small Negro "tiger" (coach-boy) up behind. On rainy days he used a closed carriage. He kept his sister in reserve and had to fall back on her one evening to keep up his lock-raping continuity...
Window trimmers, decorating showrooms last week for the Cadillac Spring Salon, teetered around a new motorcar. Salesmen studied its points: plenty of nickel plate; narrow, high radiator; low, elliptical lines; 8-cylinder, V-type motor; 125-in. wheelbase; six body types- roadster, phaeton, coupé, convertible coupé, victoria and sedan. It looked like a Cadillac slightly reduced in size. It was just that-designedly the "companion car to Cadillac." And, like the Cadillac, this new model is being built by President Lawrence P. Fisher of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. for General Motors. He is one of six brothers...
...adding machine supplanted the Dickensian bookkeeper, as the automobile did away with landau and phaeton, so the radio, it is said, is rapidly evicting the old-fashioned reciter from his or her diminishing place in the sun. Oh, many are still to be found! Professors of elocution ? even in New York, highly-skilled and successful monologists such as Ruth Draper...
There have also been added 47 volumes of the Tauchnitz edition under the following titles: "A Daughter of Heth," "Judith Shakespeare," "Macleod of Dare," "Shandon Bells," "In Silk Attire," "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," "Three Feathers," by W. Black; "The Indiscretion of the Duchess," by A. Hope; "In the Golden Days," "Knight-Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith...