Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nice & Lovely" Next day the Senators let Mr. Fitzpatrick tell his own story. As a small-town Kansas lawyer he became general counsel for Prairie in 1908, rose to president by 1928. Like Harry Sinclair in Independence, Sam Fitzpatrick played in the brass band in Sedan, Kans. In later years in Independence he lived near Harry Sinclair, always rated a standing salute when he spoke in public. But last week Independence citizens, shocked by the $300.000 gift, talked about how Sam Fitzpatrick had sold out their home-town company...
Then Oswald was alarmed by evidences or healing in his carefully prepared breach. Dr. Franklin was a violent Francophile; he let it be known that he was a violent Francophile. Richard Oswald, Esq., grew alarmed. Daily his sedan waited before Franklin's lodgings in Paris, the emissary pressed harder for settlement. Mr. Jay reasoned, and delayed. Mr. Adams fumed, and delayed. Dr. Franklin told stories, between twinges of gout, and delayed. Mr. Oswald ceded to the colonies all the land to the Father of Waters. October, in process of time, became November; Dr. Franklin became more friendly with le Comte...
...expected Benny to be happy, but he wasn't. "While Franklin, by his precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles and his fame gave him the rank of a nobleman. When he thought about this, Benny felt wretched and ashamed. But what could he do about...
...sedan started up with a jerk, shot down Wolf Road. The taxi driver and his passenger leaped from their cab, began dancing up & down in the road, waving their arms at an army airplane overhead. The airplane picked up their signal, nosedived. Instantly along Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head...
...when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name of a man connected with Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang. Newsmen discovered that 300 policemen had been organized for the trapping, but that unfortunately their sealed orders failed to state what it was all about. While the policemen gaped...