Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five reels of photographs of Indian tribal ceremonies in the Hollywood Bowl, William Loane West, whose two grandfathers were full blooded Indians, became an "honorary" chief. From his platform profits he has not only earned enough to re-enter California as a junior, but also to buy a Lincoln sedan which he hopes to use for short lecture trips to help pay his tuition. His purpose in trying to make the football team is to back up his claims for the Loane West health regimen. Said he last week: "The chances are 1,000-to-1 against...
Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...
...examination last month, found his condition ''satisfactory for his age." Chief trouble, Vatican attendants admitted, is that the Pope, once a sturdy mountain climber, finds it difficult not only to walk but to breathe easily. In all his daily activities he now is borne about in a sedan chair, or in his ceremonial sedia gestatoria (portable throne). Near the Benediction Hall, where Pius XI holds audiences, there has been set up behind a red curtain a portable washstand and toilet, with a cabinet containing first-aid medicaments. To this, and presumably to one like it at Castel Gandolfo...
...brother, son, son-in-law, brother-in-law, cousin). Only seven months ago the National Government landslide elected Hon. William ("Bill") Waldorf Astor, chipper young heir of Viscount Astor. During the campaign Hon. Bill would pop up through the sliding roof of his little sedan, harangue constituents, then pop down and off to the next gathering. He scored an outstanding win from a previously strong Labor candidate. Last week potent Clan Astor was overjoyed when Hon. Bill was picked by Sir Samuel Hoare to be Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord, this sort of job under a minister with...
...gates of the Indianapolis Speedway opened at 6 a. m. First customers were two Illinois sisters named Ford who had been camping at the entrance in their sedan for three weeks, selling souvenir photographs of themselves to buyers farther back in the mile-long queue. By 9 o'clock the grandstands were almost full. Inside the oval of the 2 ½-mile brick track, remnants of the crowd of 168,000 wriggled into rows of bleachers on the tops of busses...