Word: rollered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a 20th Century story about a little man who did no harm, saved his money, lived in the sun and fell in love with a steam roller...
Three years ago, Giuseppe was promoted to drive the steam roller...
Giuseppe, who had never had anything to love, loved it as a hunter loves his dog or a rider his horse, or perhaps just as a man (in the 20th Century) loves his machine. When the day's work was done, Giuseppe would drive his steam roller around to his shack, and putter about, oiling and cleaning it. Sometimes at work Giuseppe would set the huge machine rolling and get down in the road to stare at it as it marched on alone, slowly and steadily crushing the gravel beneath its bland power...
Help Yourself. In a new self-service gas station in Los Angeles, motorists helped themselves to gasoline, oil, water, and air for their tires, paid the station's cut-rate charges to girls on roller skates. The customers liked the new prices, but some found the system confusing. One was prevented just in time from putting oil into his battery, another misjudged the automatic cut-off on the gasoline hose, doused one of the cruising cashiers...
Amber, the girl with the bedroom eyes and the roller-coaster mink, moved Francis Cardinal Spellman to a cry of disapproval. The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency had already condemned the Hollywood version of the Kathleen Winsor novel; now the Cardinal himself added a forceful Amen: no Catholic could see it "with a safe conscience." It was only the second time he had condemned a movie (the first was in 1941 when he blasted Two-Faced Woman, with Greta Garbo...