Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never drive more than 30 m. p. h. myself but I like to know I am maintaining that speed and that everything is in order. Can you tell me why your admirably courteous motor police are under instructions never to oblige a motorist by pacing him? I have met with refusals in the States of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, although I merely asked to be paced at 30 m. p. h. The officers were polite and did not seem to know themselves the reason for their instructions. With all this talk of safety, I should think every assistance...
Since a King must often speed unobserved from front to front in wartime, Italy's Royal Train is closely curtained with rich stuffs at night, shows no chink of light. Instead of the precarious passage from car to car amid jangling and jagged gadgets common on most European trains, the passageway between cars is lined with heavy velvet, the handrails roped with cords of gold...
...invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt Chateau, lost when the chateau was blown up, found in 1933 when a garbled copy of the original was already going to press. Readers whose suspicions are awakened by such remarkable coincidences may be made more doubtful by the narrative speed and fluency of the memoirs, the dialogs which read like passages from a good novel, the portrait of Napoleon, which agrees so exactly with that of modern research. But they will be unable to discover contradictions or vagueness in the work itself, are likely to be convinced that...
...drive at moderate speed and on own side of road...
Stressing the importance of competitive track in the development of speed, Farrell plans to be present each afternoon this week to meet and assist all aspirants for the squad. He is especially interested in football...