Word: speeder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dean Swift. In New Hamburg, Ont., Walter Haas was arrested for careless driving, explained that he was only trying to catch another speeder to lecture him on safety...
Hedge Hopper. In Hot Springs, Ark., when State Trooper Glen Minton stopped a speeder and asked him why he was displaying on his windshield the campaign stickers of two rival candidates for municipal judge, the man said: "With my traffic record, I can't afford to be wrong...
...state police commissioner, a post he resigned two years ago to run unsuccessfully for the Republican senatorial nomination. Years ago, Trooper Leonard escorted governors' cars and decided that even a policeman could be governor. When he broke his back in a motorcycle accident while chasing a speeder, he used his convalescence to attend law school. Known as an honest cop and a shrewd fighter, Don Leonard has made thousands of friends throughout Michigan, but few politicians are ready to bet that he can keep Soapy Williams from capturing a fourth term...
...functioned as a boomer on 86 pikes as brass pounder, shack, tallow pot, gandy dancer, hoghead* and so forth, from Alaska to Cape Horn; and because I've worked on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad a short hitch, I am sure that a velocipede or "speeder" is not called a handcar on that streak of rust...
...Speeder's Digest. In Trumbull, Conn., Victor Hovey, arrested for doing 70 m.p.h. on the Merritt Parkway, told the judge he had not realized how fast he was going because he had become engrossed by his wife's reading of a magazine article on the perils of speeding...