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...Knowles' device, a dewdrop could be made to stop a battleship, a passing cloud to turn on all the electric lights in New York, a sunbeam to start the most ponderous locomotive...
Major H. O. D. Segrave, one-time British aviator, braced himself behind the wheel of a 24-cylinder, 1,000-h.p., 4-ton automobile of British make (Sunbeam); zipped along the tide-smoothed sand at Daytona Beach, Fla.; set a new record for the straightaway mile, 203.792 mi. per hour. Task completed, Major Segrave dismounted to receive prompt recognition from onlooker John D. Rockefeller Sr., in the shape of four shiny new dimes...
...that our college bards have no singing in them whatsoever. Perhaps it is more justly put to say that while their contents are rich enough, their throats are seasonably hoarse. I venture, however, that the keen ear of Dean Briggs himself would find pleasure in "He came upon a sunbeam to the fount, Unrippled mirror of that winged romance...
...Other European cars on exhibit included: (French) Hispano-Suiza, Renault, Delange, Citroen, Voisin, Panhard; (English) Rolls-Royce, Daimler, Sunbeam, Bean, Wolsey, Humber; (Belgian) Minerva; (Italian) Isotta-Fraschini, Ansaldo ; (German) Maybach, Mercedes, Rumpler, Benz...
...light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...