Word: pillion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flier released yesterday, the nation wide express service, which is preparing for an exodus of over to pillion and a quarter college men and women this month, suggested goal business methods would eliminate all cares...
Driven a team of horses. Swung in a "swingboat" at a fair. Ridden pillion on a motorcycle. Witnessed either the Oxford-Cambridge boat race or the Lord Mayor's Show...
George Bernard Shaw (74 last week) was asked if he was the tall, bearded man seen riding behind Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence. Said he: "Good Heavens, man, I've got a perfectly good motorcycle of my own. . . . I've never ridden pillion in my life, though I shouldn't mind doing so in the ordinary way. But Lawrence's machine is such a great brute of a thing and he goes so fast I doubt whether I could hold on. Probably I'd be left sitting in the road...