Word: sedans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rita Hayworth, arriving in France on the United States, was driven from Le Havre to Paris in husband Aly Khan's little Austin sedan ("Aly's $1,000 Car Hauls Rita's Million $ Chassis," cracked the New York Daily News). To reporters, anxious to know about a reconciliation with Aly, she said: "I am delighted to be back in Paris ... I want to see lots of dressmakers while I am here." A few days later, Aly drove up from his Cannes villa, joined Rita at his Paris house. He took her on an extensive shopping tour...
...partially air-conditioned. They spend some of their time at Sharyland, the hotel-like headquarters of the Shary enterprises at Mission, and some at the Shivers farm near Woodville. Although Shivers owns two Cadillac limousines, he has been driving-in this election year-a red Ford sedan (with a Mercury engine and an air-conditioning system...
Afternoons, he is in the field, barreling across the desert in his official Lincoln sedan, to ordnance depots and training camps. Often, when soldiers gripe about their miserable pay (10? a day), the commander in chief turns out his pockets and hands out all the money...
...Marine Corporal Frank Farkas painted the word lemon on the side of his secondhand sedan after it suffered repeated breakdowns, was promptly arrested by Washington, D.C. police and found guilty of an American form of lese majesty under a local regulation which forbids displays which "ridicule" the make of an automobile...
Here & there, in the thick of the battle, police glimpsed a huge, black Hotchkiss sedan with an outsize radio aerial. At 10 p.m. they stopped the car and ordered out its occupants. They turned out to be National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, 56, a pudgy onetime pastry chef who is now acting chief of the French Communist Party (while Chief Maurice Thorez convalesces on the Black Sea), his wife Gilberte, a burly bodyguard, a chauffeur-and two dead pigeons. Police believed the birds were homing pigeons hastily killed. Mme. Duclos insisted that they were the gift of a friend-for stewing...