Word: purr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...travel-all functioning, with operators in period costumes. All vehicles except the ships, among them Fulton's steamboat and the Baltimore Clipper, are originals. Baltimore & Ohio R. R.'s ancient Tom Thumb locomotive, a boiler on wheels, leads the way for the Royal Scot. Straight-eight automobiles purr behind the horseless carriages...
...gauge which looks like a rifle sight on the profile of Blue Bird's is-ft. bonnet, he gathered speed going south along the beach. Nearing the grandstand at the start of the mile, the sound of Bine Bird's motor was first a low undertone to the warm purr of the surf, then a thundering roar, then a mighty shout of speed and wind as the car blurred past...
...receiving reporters, making engagements for dinners, banquets, radio broadcasts, and arranging cigarette endorsements. People rush in and out. Everyone is screaming when at last the victim comes in, he is immediately mauled by all in sight. A radio announcer yells at a microphone, cameras click, and moving picture machines purr. The scene is almost Shavian in its magnificence. The poor boy has not a moment to himself. He becomes conceited and changed, but still has a spark of the "old Yankee spirit." The final outcome is what makes the story interesting...
Behind him in the noisome city where his word is law and his wink worth $50.000, a tumult has broken forth and moral prelates and amoral Republicans are piling advice on vice. The Tammany Tiger is trying to purr like a pussy cat but it seems to have an impolitic foog in its throat which gives it the sound of an angry beast caught at another's carrion. And from what one hears the stench will last long after the scandalous corpse has been cleared from the city streets...