Word: roadster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drove off with this young fellow in his roadster and I was left here with her children...
Stowaway exhibits Shirley Temple as Ching-Ching, an exiled waif, hopping around Shanghai and looking cut for chances. Her missionary parents have been killed by outlaws and she is on the town. When it starts raining. Ching-Ching crawls into the rumble seat of a roadster, closes the top. The roadster, which belongs to a playboy named Tommy Randall (Robert Young), goes aboard a ship bound for San Francisco...
...Saturday morning two years ago, a Packard roadster with the top down started from San Mateo, Calif, for a weekend trip to Aptos. At the car's wheel was its owner, big, blond Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...
...called by its makers the "Nippy Sports" model (see cut p. 33), sells for $745 with a special "super-engine" of 21 h. p., or for $695 with the standard Baby Austin engine which develops 17 h. p. (rated for tax purposes at 7.8 h. p.). In cheapest standard roadster form, the Austin is offered in Manhattan for $495, with 40 mi. per gal. promised. Efforts to manufacture Austins in the U. S. miserably failed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935), because they obviously cannot be sold to the U. S. masses in competition with U. S. cars of similar price...
...Tanked with rye whiskey and honey, he roared through Washington in his Packard roadster looking for her, zigzagging, climbing sidewalks, bumping fenders...