Word: roustabout
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Chinaman, who later made signs and bestowed ginger. He still writes, briefly-of a sad-singing Chinee poet who could but die when well-meaning friends supplied him with his heart's desire; of a Chinee hunchback who may have been white-feathered Eros for a Limey roustabout and his pretty moll; or of a pious Chinee merchant who sacrificed his family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant. There are other tales, more drab and theatrical, of factory creatures in Stewpony and Clutterfield; and some people think that Author Burke overdoes the seamy side...
...dealers were going to sell the new Willys-Overland "Whippet," a low-slung coursing car designed to make 55 miles an hour and 30 miles on a gallon of gasoline; a roustabout car that "turns on a dime," stops with a swish of its four-wheel brakes. Out in the yards 885 of these machines waited to be driven away to dealer showrooms in the farthest reaches of the country. Mr. Willys was content. He was the first manufacturer to offer a U. S. equivalent to the diminutive European touring-traffic-and-economy cars like the Bean in England...