Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Body changes are more spectacular. A door will be fitted for the first time next to the driver in the roadster and touring model. The Tudor (two door "coach") and the Fordor (four door sedan) will blossom respectively into "deep channel green" and "rich Windsor maroon." Heretofore all Fords have been black. All but these two models will remain so. Other "radical improvements" are: (1) inch larger steering-wheels on all models; (2) seats 4 inches closer to the ground and more ^ reclining; (3) radiators⅝ of an inch higher, and nickeled in closed models; (4) gas tanks under cowl...
...Jones' spectacular play began with his adolescence. He and his young companion, Perry Adair, were astonishing the senior members of Druid Hills (Atlanta) where they both wore short trousers even to parties. Jones was but 14 when he led a field of the country's ablest for half a qualifying round at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia). The beating he gave Gardner at Oakmont three years later was payment for a budnipping that occurred in the third round of that Merion affair. Francis Ouimet administered the budnipping at the Engineers' Club (Roslyn, L. I.) in 1920, Willie Hunter...
...West to win the Tennis Championships of the U. S. and England. Twice she held the singles championship of the world, three times the U. S. title, married Thomas Bundy, (Bundy held, at the time, the national doubles title with Maurice McLaughlin, "The California Comet," the most spectacular player who ever stepped on a court...
...Miss Marion Williams of California, 6-1, 6-4. Miss Joan Fry, 19-year old Wimbleton (England) finalist, was no small fry for Miss Mary K. Browne, three times champion, second in the national ranking, who went down, in a sensational upset, before the spectacular drives, the amazing volleys, and the affronting grin of the British frail...
...Scott promised other and more spectacular performances of the "stroke." He sought an antiquated battleship upon which to demonstrate. In Washington, officials had no definite plans for supplying the battleship but followed the inventor's work closely, deeply interested...