Word: sped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Paris to Manhattan last week sped Art Collector Edouard Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month...
...Nutley, N. J., John Harris, 25, Negro care taker, took a joy ride in his employer's limousine, was spotted and chased by traffic cops. For five minutes he sped, the police shooting at him. Then he bumped a light in front of a gas station, caromed into an alley, demolished a tree. In the darkness he slunk home, where police found him huddled in a clothes closet, popeyed, a rabbit's foot in each hand. He had also swallowed his tongue...
Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...Devens crashed off tackle for the second score. Putnam's kick was good. Coach Horween here gave the ball to his team on the 30 yard stripe and, after Charles Devens had made 17 by rushing. Potter heaved a beautiful long forward to Harding, subbing for O'Connell, who sped on to the seconds goal line. The pass and run together were good for 53 yards. Putnam again kicked between the uprights...
Last week, Dr. Eckener and most of the Akron group sped to Manhattan. There they conferred with representatives of G.M.P.-Murphy & Co. and of Lehman Bros., and feted with National City Bank officials. Those houses are bankers for Continental plane lines? North, Central and South America. By making connections with them Dr. Eckener and Mr. Litchfield foresaw a possible world air linkage?Zeppelins by sea, planes by land...