Word: racers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected to fall in their mid-teens, among many women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio's incestuous flare-up with his half-sister, ending in suicide...
...Charlotte, N. C., one Ralph Hepburn, automobile racer, moving at 125 miles an hour, swerved crazily, threw on his brakes, drew up at the side of the track. Mechanics found him almost unconscious from pain. A sparrow had flown against his goggles, broken them, forced a piece of glass under his eyelid...
...plane moved so fast that it seemed foolish to suppose that the solemn and magnificent music bore any relation to its maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good...
Loved by reprobate comets, mothered by gypsy women, automobile racers have few ties in the world through which they dash, and seldom acknowledge human kin. But, in the famed 500-mile sweepstakes at Indianapolis last week, Ralph de Palma, veteran driver, had a nephew-a dark diminutive youth with a countenance like a mask bitten out of sandstone by the wind. Uncle de Palma was a trifle worried. The boy was reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo...
Only four entrants set off, at intervals of 10 seconds, to fly the Pulitzer speed test. The Navy, winner last year, went unrepresented, having had no appropriation from Congress. Lieut. W. H. Mills in a Verville-Sperry racer, Lieut. W. H. Brookley in a Curtiss R-6, and Lieut. Rex Stoner in a Curtiss PW-8-A were the first three to fly to a point ten miles behind the start and ascend in the customary "tower" from which the racers plunge down to the starting pylon at maximum speed. Last to leave the ground was Captain Burt E. Skeel...