Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. John Grier Hibben, 72, president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after...
Lottie Perkins wrote a 30,000-word novel this time, The Missing Twin. Excerpt: "Mr. and Mrs. Jones left after they had told the Jameses what a wonderful time they had. As they got into their sedan Mrs. Jones said...
...automobile belonging to Dickie Moore can be identified as a death car the instant it appears on the floor of Metropolitan Garage. This and other paraphernalia in The Devil Is Driving-an airshaft into which a sedan topples, a narrow two-way ramp full of blind corners-make it a peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with...
...plea: "The trick is to get a lot of foam in the milk so the pop bottle will fill up quickly." Norman B. Collins, president of Security Bank and Second Security Bank of Chicago, and his wife were kidnapped in Wilmette (Chicago suburb) by five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down to $5,000. She was released to telephone to Chairman James B. Forgan Jr. of Second Security Bank, while Banker Collins rode on in the black sedan. Banker Collins...
...Manhattan, off for the weekend in their sedan, Louis Kuntzman & family could not have been more surprised when a policeman stopped them at the entrance to Holland Tunnel and news photographers came crowding around. The Kuntzman's car, explained the policeman reassuringly, was the 50 millionth to enter the westbound tube since it opened...