Word: tonneau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well-sleeked motor purred into London last week, its hood piled high with sprays of lilac, armfuls of bluebells. As the car sped down Whitehall, slowed, turned into Downing Street, passing Londoners smiled at the genial Briton who beamed from the tonneau upon the world in general. It was like Premier Baldwin, the Londoners told each other, to go motoring in the country for a few days, recreate himself thoroughly, and then return to grapple with the coal strike, which continued last week despite the calling off of the great "general strike" (TIME...
...usual gayety" thus doubly fortified, the former Crown Prince early the next morning attired himself in conspicuous English tweeds, went shopping in the village of Doorn, posed amiably for photographers. Returning to his father's chateau, he personally took the wheel of a large touring car, into the tonneau of which climbed Wilhelm and Prince Henry. A limousine driven by the former Prince of Hesse drew up and was entered by the Princess of Hesse (the former Kaiser's sister Margaret) and Hermine...
...made the rest seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other...
Otto H. Kahn. In the tonneau of his limousine Otto Hermann Kahn (if the reporter had not made a mistake) settled himself for whatever reflections were his at that hour of an autumn afternoon. He might have thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things?of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call...
...high-powered car purred through the forest of Fuente de la Teja. Reclining in the tonneau were a stiff young fellow in military trimmings, and a cadaverous-faced, hook-nosed individual with all the bored air of a man of the world. King Alfonso was going to visit the new water works which are to supply Madrid...