Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted by your article "The Great Steamer" [Sept. 20], as, I am sure, were the great many other lovers of steam and antique autos in the U.S. Paul Tusek's adventure is part of the great glory of an almost lost art: automobiling...
...called "Family Life in America" is a satisfying parody of the American naturalistic school: "The street was covered with slimy mud. It oozed out from under Bernice's rubbers in unpleasant bubbles until it seemed to her as if she must kill herself. Hot air coming out from a steam laundry. Hot, stifling air. Bernice didn't work in the laundry but she wished that she did so the hot air would kill her. She wanted to be stified. She needed torture to be happy. She also needed a good swift clout on the side of the face." Or there...
...lectures with anecdotes about the great and near great of U.S. letters, was credited with tripling the enrollment in the American literature course. To O'Hara, the feeling was apparently mutual. Said one friend after his return from Idaho: "I've never seen him so full of steam...
...Vintage Car Rally into a private competition with calamity. Like most antique cars, the "Stanley Gentlemen's Speedy Roadster" showed some stubborn and u predictable quirks. Its temperamental burners, which require a mixture of kerosene and gasoline, could not stomach the English brands. Its pilot light went out, steam pressure dropped, and the boiler filled with the fumes of unburned fuel. Tusek (an ex-paratrooper) tried to light things up again, but touched off an explosion that flashed flames all over the car and started the boiler's seams...
Bright & Brassy. Within sight of Chichester, the Steamer quit for good. Tusek could not work up a head of steam. Polite Britons changed the rules, allowed their opponents to enter a substitute: a bright, brassy 1914 Stutz. Still, the British won almost every event. Even in the Concours d'Elegance, judges looked past the sharp and shiny American paint jobs that dazzled the crowds, lifted hoods, examined brake linings, and awarded the beauty prize to the British. Final score: Britain...