Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...messenger's uniform taxied along Ogden Avenue in the Chicago suburbs one afternoon last week, came to a halt at Smith's Barbecue near La Grange. Two men in a Ford sedan drove alongside the taxi...
With Holy Year pilgrims packing the Papal State under a scorching sun, Catholics were relieved to hear last week that Pope Pius XI is taking special measures to conserve and spur his strength. "The Holy Father, in cases where an elevator is not available, now uses a sedan chair," said a high Vatican official last week. "During the hottest weather, after receiving enormous numbers of pilgrims, he sometimes varies his abstemious diet, partaking of a little iced champagne...
...pictures sweep from Sarajevo to Sedan, from recruiting rallies to cemeteries, from ammunition factories to prison camps. Notable shots: Archduke Ferdinand's blood-flecked tunic; silk-hatted Etonians drilling with rifles; French troops deployed for the first battle of the Marne; Serbia's melancholy Peter watching his army break before Mackensen; a direct hit on Rheims Cathedral; the famed River Clyde under fire at Gallipoli; Russian infantry retreating on the run; the U. S. transport Antilles sinking; a No Man's Land capture; U. S. infantry blinded by gas; a dachshund following Kaiser Wilhelm into exile; French...
...parody of Grand Hotel, later rearranged as a starring vehicle for Peggy Hopkins Joyce, this picture emerges finally as a private spree for W. C. Fields. He is a completely demented aviator who, while trying to circumnavigate the globe in an autogiro which contains a small sedan in its fuselage, lands on the roof of a hotel...
...face, an unlighted cigar, an armful of bottles. He goes on a rampage among the wires of the hotel switchboard. which he scornfully describes as a "Chinese noodle-swamp." He insults the inventor, abuses Gracie Allen (who has a small role as nurse to the house doctor), drives his sedan down the fire escape, finally meanders off in his autogiro with Miss Joyce, whom he calls his little buttercup...