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Word: sedans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mortal head wound crumpled Larry Cappo, sleek little gangster, onetime prizefighter, night-club headwaiter, in the back of a wrecked sedan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Little Tammany | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

...cars there. Dillinger tore out ignition wires. Once over an eight foot wall, with Blunk between them, Dillinger and Youngblood made their way to a garage whose owner was foreman of the Grand Jury which indicted Dillinger. There stood Sheriff Lillian Holley's new Ford V8 sedan, equipped with red headlights, a siren, a short-wave radio set and decorated with the sheriff's badge. With Blunk at the wheel, and another hostage, the two fugitives set off across country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Whittler's Holiday | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...ambulance and lifted out not 94-year-old John Davison Rockefeller St., as bystanders expected, but the first of 115 pieces of luggage. Few minutes later Mr. Rockefeller, well-bundled in wraps and ear muffs and accompanied by his son John Jr., was driven up in a big, black sedan. Delayed at Pocantico Hills some three months by an attack of influenza, he was at last ready for his annual trip to his winter home at Ormond Beach, Fla. The announcement day before his departure that he had given up the trip was unexplained. Before his wheel-chair was hoisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

When her limousine broke down on the road from Sandringham House to Cambridge, England's Queen Mary was given a lift in a wheezy little 10 h. p. sedan driven by a brewery's traveling salesman named Percy Titmous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...eyeful when the ambiguous Denyse Zinh swims into view. Before he knows it, they are bedfellows. But when he walks in unexpectedly one night he finds he is not the only one. Taking it like a man, he goes off to watch the French army get its knockout at Sedan. He arrives the night before the battle, just as the German lines are closing in, is summoned by the Emperor and given an important missive to the Empress in Paris. After the battle he gets through the German lines, helps rescue the Empress from a mob at the Tuileries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Spectator | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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