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...girl, the husband begins to wonder darkly, "What happened on the '49 run?" when his wife, before they were married, made the trip in the yellow Spyker. His discontent takes the form of a belligerent insistence that his car is better than the other, and the two soon rooster each other into a race back to London, with the rash sum of ?100 riding on the outcome...
Whipping over the flats, kicking up big rooster tails of salt dust, the racers looked more like shuttling ants than cars. A tiny Class "O" (91 cu. in. of cylinder space, the smallest classification) Lakester buzzed along at 111.46 m.p.h., a bigger version got up to 188.08 m.p.h., a sleek streamliner with two V-8 engines churning 600 h.p. reached 255.41 m.p.h. By the time the Nationals were over, U.S. records in 15 classes had been smashed, and the hot-rodders were just getting started...
...radical craft that would ride as much on air as on water, yet be controllable. The result was Slo-Mo IV, which the Detroiters have now grudgingly copied; but, as this week's race proved, they have not yet caught up with Stan Sayres. Throwing up a saucy rooster tail of white spray as she churned round & round the 3¼-mile course, Slo-Mo IV rubbed the Detroit boats in her wake. Behind on only one lap of the three-heat, go-mile race, she racked up speed records for a single lap and a full heat. First...
...Bereaved. In the McLeansboro (Ill.) Times-Leader, Mrs. Ebb Hargrave pleaded: "Will the person or persons who took all my hens and left the old rooster come and get him. He is lonesome...
...year. Among the best: a compassionate scene of two old Bowery bums. Under the El, by Manhattan's Jack Levine; a primitive allegory, Fishers, Simon and Peter, by Manhattan's C. Murray Foster; a biting satire, Tension, by St. Louis' Siegfried Reinhardt, which showed a straining rooster, a bird hanging by its neck, a boy stretching a string, and a man twisting the boy's head...