Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Ruppert, father of a sitter, said: "My boy is sunburned and the exposure to fresh air will benefit him. I want him to make a real record and I've promised a reward of 50? a day for each day over 20 he stays aloft...
...from this sanguine look ahead, he turned to the present and solemnly, outspokenly startled his audience. ''Our Protestant denominationalism," he said, "with over 150 sects in the U. S., has become utterly obsolete, so far as modern significance is concerned, and is now a public scandal and disgrace...
...last week put upon the other foot by a Mrs. Annabelle Young, church worker. She petitioned New Haven's Board of Aldermen to pass an ordinance obliging all girls of New Haven over twelve years of age to wear stockings in public or court arrest. Said Worker Young: "A splendid body of students come here each year. . . . I love young people and want to protect them against themselves...
...miracle, not "marvelous," "sensational," nor "at last the perfect automobile." It is not built for speed, cannot perform the impossible. But it will claim to be a man-made machine with many exclusive advantages. It will be "first production car of its kind."* So said Auburn Automobile Co., in advance notice of its Cord car, named after its President Errett Lobban Cord, to be priced between the Auburn ($995 to $2,095) and the Dusenberg ($8,500 chassis...
...entirely new car, 15 years ahead of the world's best, able to accelerate from ten to 60 m.p.h. in ten seconds. It is, in fact, but a mirage rolling down the avenues of the imagination. "Unauthorized and inaccurate," said Rolls-Royce Co. of England, bridling proudly at reports, emanating from England and given world wide audience, that it was about to bring out a new model (TIME...