Word: phaetons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squatting on its bent axles on Mill street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses is a 1931 Buick Phaeton that is worth its weight in 1950 Cadillacs, according to owner Michael S. Post...
...Globe & Mail's Columnist Jim Coleman wrote her an open letter: "We read in the public prints where some acorn named Avery Umbrage, who lives down in the Excited States, is trying to have you expelled from the amateur ranks because you accepted a nice yellow Buick phaeton as a gift. . . ." Amidst the commotion, Prime Minister Mackenzie King reassured his people; he guaranteed to the Commons that everything possible was being done to safeguard Barbara...
...precisely 3 p.m., on Ottawa's Parliament Hill, a sleek maroon phaeton rolled up the curving drive. Several thousand sweltering spectators patted their hands in gentle applause. The car stopped at the great center doorway of the Parliament Building and out stepped Alexander Frederick Augustus William Alfred George Cambridge, first Earl of Athlone, and his wife, the Princess Alice. Athlone. for five years the representative in Canada of his nephew George VI, was on his way to perform for the last time the most impressive of a Canadian Governor General's functions-the formal opening of a session...
...first night the President's train sped north, then west. Morning brought Detroit. At the Chrysler Tank Arsenal, 300 soldiers swiftly took their posts. FBI agents blocked the doors, the overhead cranes jolted to a sudden stop. Out of the Presidential train rolled the White House phaeton, its top down, the bulletproof windows up. Franklin Roosevelt stepped in. Chrysler's wise, bulky President K. T. Keller eased into one of the jump seats...
...secret had been well kept. Young Robert T. Keller, who works for his father as an engineer, arrived panting for breath just as the phaeton pulled away. "My God, it's the President," he cried. "Why didn't my old man tell...