Word: racier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like a modern Pallas Athene, full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed is the latest news from the U. S. "intellectual" front. Far from being...
...content with the Auburn and the high-priced Duesenberg which he had been making in small quantities since 1928, Errett Cord launched another car in late 1929, longer, lower, racier than his first. Expensive and finely engineered, with the driving power in the front wheels, it was named after himself. The Cord, jokes the automobile industry, is just an Auburn running backward. But Errett Cord, the industry admits, is still a Cord running forward. At the Show last week was to be seen a new Auburn V-Twelve with at least one exclusive device novel to the industry? a dual...
Bull Pup. Racier than the Junior is the Bull Pup, a single-seat high-wing monoplane announced at $1,250 last fortnight by Buhl Aircraft Co. Features: Szekely 3-cylinder motor of 45 h. p. Top speed 92 m. p. h., landing speed 35. But a larger wing span is provided for buyers who want to fly and land more slowly...