Word: runabouts
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...monster shot under the Albany bridge of the Hudson River, heading downstream, a monster shaped like a huge boat, edged with foam and letting out an enormous engine roar. Quickly the monster lost its symmetry, split up into 101 separate hydroplane, outboard and runabout motor boats. In its roar the drone of individual engines could be distinguished. In the boats, bouncing on the floorboards in their padded driving suits, clutching their wheels with one hand while with the other they tuned their engines, could be seen the pilots, the ablest outboard and runabout "bugs" in the country, off again...
Round-faced John Moore Cabot, 28, Harvard-Oxford graduate, Boston socialite secretary to the U. S. legation at Santo Domingo, crammed a dingy felt hat on his head, shook hands with his chief, U. S. Minister Charles B. Curtis, stepped into his runabout coupe, and raced snorting out of town...
...Domingo remained stu- diously neutral in their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid. U. S. Minister Curtis ran over from his legation. Ensued...
...mother's friend, was a cool blonde 24 years older than Chéri. When Léa invited the youth to come with her to the country he brought along his Renouhard runabout, saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, Léa remained in Chéri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing Léa's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...
From New Orleans, heading for St. Louis 1,200 miles upstream, "out to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee," sleek express cruiser Martha Jane and a smaller mahogany runabout called Bogie started up the tortuous Mississippi. The Robert E. Lee's record, made in 1870 when she beat the Natchez and many a shiny dollar changed hands...