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Paths to Paradise. "Darling/' said Raymond Griffith, master crook, to Betty Compson, his accomplice, when their speedy roadster had just eluded 100 motor cops, "I feel we're doing wrong. Let's turn around and take the diamond necklace back where it belongs." They do so; another chase speeds up an excellent comedy...
...better swimming facilities was the feature of the answer to the question. "What advantages do you think you ought to have found at Harvard which you have failed to find?" One facetious Senior wails. "I shouldn't have flunked out," while another replies. "Exclusive use of a fast roadster...
Into a Paris garage rolled a roadster, hot from the Dieppe road. The hour was a wee, small one. The garage was full downstairs. The mechanic on duty so informed the driver of the roadster, requested that he steer to the elevator for a ride to the second floor. Out leaped the 'driver. "I," said he, "am Georges Carpentier," bashed the mechanic's nose with his gorgeous right fist. With an untranslatable exclamation, the mechanic dove at his customer's knees, tackled, rolled the Orchid Man of France upon the greasy garage floor, pummelled, beat, ejected...
Precedent gives this a portent. The "chummy roadster" definitely abolished the bustle, and Coles Phillips popularized the silk stocking; surely rain can do as much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...
...SALE.- A BARGAIN.- A fine saddle and driving bay mare. Gentle, fast roadster, easy saddle gait. Weight 1150 pounds; height 15 1-2 hands; age 8 years. Also double trap, single Russian sleigh, harness, robes, blankets, etc., all nearly new. A gentleman's outfit. Address "R," Crimson Office...