Word: scootering
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...positions filled elsewhere by paid help: waiting on table, washing dishes, begin office boy or librarian, etc. . . . At any rate, whether rich or poor, whether professor or student, all have the same clothes, the same leisure, and the same automobile--which costs, second hand, as much as a motor scooter...
Priests in Italy, according to a Vatican report, currently own 30,850 motor scooters, and in terms of sacraments and good works, the average priest's efficiency has climbed to about 3,000% over that of his road-trudging 19th century predecessor. Another straw in this high wind is the decline of the more introverted Benedictines and foot-slogging Franciscans in favor of the fast-moving Jesuits, whose high-octane practicality thrives on the motor-scooter age. Pope Pius XII has been a longtime friend of automotion; last fall he called for "greater and greater speed to the glory...
Italian motor-scooter enthusiasts, often harshly criticized for their desire to dominate the road, were still glowing at the Pope's understanding words to a group of Vespa riders: "Those who complain of your noise, do they ever think that your speed may take you to church in time for Mass, or that you may be rushing a sick person to the hospital? Be patient with those who abuse...
...heavily industrialized north, executives at Falck, Italy's biggest privately owned steel company, reported that demand was outstripping production, that steel had been in a sellers' market for the past nine months. Such big motor-scooter companies as Innocenti and Vespa were rolling along at an 11,000-per-month production rate, more than double the figure two years ago; overall, the industry has produced 2,400,000 postwar scooters, and has only skimmed the top off the market...
...casting sheep's eyes at the girl, as she allows that "It's much more interesting for a woman if a man is older." So it goes, everybody barreling happily down the wrong side of the street. Then, of course, the emotional trafric-including an angry motor scooter belonging to the midinette's boy friend (Claude Romainj-gets too heavy, and age must be swerved...