Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride's late father loaned by her brother Walter, the new Duke of Buccleuch. As they settled down with the headline, "HER GRACE ARISES EARLY TO RUN GLOUCESTER'S HOUSE," the Court of Appeals went on with Lady Alice's wedding gown "made...
...lofty mountain peaks. One of them was the son of the sculptor himself* and he recognized our plight on the roadside and when he found out who we were he said, "Well, well, I have just been reading about you," and he picked from the seat upon which he was riding in the car your magazine of Sept. 16 and brought it to my attention and in which was the article and the picture of myself standing in the kitchen of my trailer with apron on and frying pan in hand...
...under a cowl lid on the right, matching a cowl ventilator on the left. Front lights are retractable like an airplane's landing gear, disappearing into the fenders when little cranks are turned on the dash. On convertible models, the top disappears into a covered compartment behind the seat, leaving nothing exposed to offer wind resistance. Since the four-speed transmission is ahead of the V-8 engine, and propeller shaft is eliminated, Cord was able to lower the floor without ridging it in the middle. Centre of gravity is the lowest on any stock car and running boards...
...Quincy served as Packard's president (1905-16). Mr. Newberry made a pleasant little splash as T.R.'s Secretary of the Navy (1908-09) and a large unpleasant splash a decade later when he defeated Henry Ford for the U. S. Senate, was accused of buying his seat with excessive campaign expenditures, resigned after he had been exonerated. When Mr. Macauley arrived as Packard's General Manager in 1910, the company was largely owned by the Joys, the Newberrys, the Algers, the McMillans and other First Families of Detroit...
Last week the genial, generous Irishman arranged to buy for $130,000 another Stock Exchange seat to present to his son William on his 21st birthday. Father Meehan also got a present-a summons from the Securities & Exchange Commission to show cause why he should not be suspended from all U. S. exchanges in which he holds memberships. SEC had reason to suspect that Mike Meehan was up to his old tricks, this time not in Radio but in Bellanca Aircraft Corp. listed on the New York Curb Exchange...