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...cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample: "Death is a black camel who kneels unbidden at the gate of every man"), suitable rebukes...
...report the Dougherty financial status a year later. Last week, the two Dougherty sons were still broker's clerks, still lived in Brooklyn with Father Dougherty, now retired. Each had invested his money in stocks which had not gone down too much. Each son owned a Chrysler roadster. Said Daniel Dougherty: "Thank God we haven't gone high hat . . . we weren't suckers with the money." Edward Dougherty said he might give up his job, study to be a doctor...
Then I retired, having had a Ford roadster in and out of hand over a damned bad road between Nice and this place which lays a leading claim for Columbus' nativity...
Definite prices have not yet been decided upon. Austin entered its first U. S. show with a new bantam model, a roadster priced...
...under the direction of able Arthur J. Brandt, the American Austin was exhibited this week in dealers' showrooms throughout the country and will be making retail deliveries early in July. Austin men say that dealers have ordered 183,000 Austins, priced at $445 F. O. B. Butler (Ford roadster, $435; Ford coupé, $495, F. O. B. Detroit; Chevrolet roadster and touring, $495; Chevrolet coupé, $565, F. O. B. Flint, Mich.; Durant coach sedan, $725, F. O. B. Detroit...