Word: rattletraps
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...practical, juristic, masters of concrete planning rather than grandiose theorizing. Most important move aside from the shelving of Georges Bonnet was the creation of a Ministry of Armaments, and the selection of efficient, inordinately hardworking, high strung, impulsive Raoul Dautry, 59, to head it. He reorganized France's rattletrap State Railways, sinking French Line, and stalled airline Aeropostale all at once. During the last war he built military rail lines. Foch called him "my railway ace." His job this time will be to make France one great arsenal to feed Commander in Chief Maurice Gamelin bullets faster than...
Half-believing friends' stories about the occult powers of the Indians, she became so excited by her first glimpse of the Southwest that she got off the train and hired a rattletrap automobile to speed her arrival. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am Here," she announced to the "mythical" New Mexico landscape. Soon tired of Santa Fe, where the people were "too eager and cordial" ('"Why," she said, "should they be so glad to see me?"), she found in the village of Taos, 75 mi. from Santa Fe, what she was looking for. She rented...
...post-War Germany. Otto owns a small garage, Robert (the "I" of the story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto's prize possession is a rattletrap car they call Karl, which looks only fit for the junk-pile but is actually a tenderly groomed greyhound of the road. Besides drinking, their favorite sport is to cruise along in Karl till they find a swank car, then lure it into a race...
...years past, last week "Fat" Peirce circulated among his alumni, exhibited his trick of never forgetting a face. To commemorate his original arrival he let students haul him up the road to the President's house in a dusty rattletrap buggy. Then able "Fat" Peirce dropped a word of his own. Having pushed Kenyon's scholarship up to the standards of Carnegie Foundation for Teaching, thereby winning a pension for all Kenyon faculty men over 70, he announced that he "would not like to form an exception to this desirable arrangement," that he would retire next year...
...dark, serious young man named John Albert Wilson went to Chicago to study under the famed Orientalist. Born in Pawling, N. Y., he had graduated from Princeton, got a teaching job at American University in Beirut, Syria, grew so fond of visiting archeological sites in his rattletrap automobile that he once had to walk the 18 miles from Bab to Aleppo in pitch darkness because in his eagerness to be off he had not properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor...