Word: tonneau
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Resourceful, Consul Chamberlain pulled the large fur hat which he was wearing because of the bitter cold down over his bruised face and started to get back into his car. His chauffeur, volubly expostulating in Japanese, tried to save the situation. But into the tonneau after Consul Chamberlain piled the Japanese sentries, pulled off his fur hat and savagely beat his face, gashing the skin of his nose and forehead until bone showed white through the red, dripping wounds. When the sentries had done with Consul Chamberlain they departed grinning. Friends of Consul Chamberlain were relieved to learn that after...
Three days, 19 hr. before at Roosevelt Field, Pilot Post had looked out into the darkness from the tonneau of an automobile in which he was chatting with a friend and observed that the rain was slacking. "All right, Harold; let's go," he had said, as he might have suggested "Let's go to the movies." To a small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment...
Reporter Powell's wife and four-year-old son, accompanied by a maid, were courteously ushered out of the building by the mobsters. But earlier, in the tonneau of their automobile, they had seen their native chauffeur shot dead when he ignored a rioter's order to halt...
...Rafael, Cal., Deputy Sheriffs Tracey and McGinnis spied a pair of lifeless legs dangling from the tonneau of a speeding car. They drew guns, pursued; overtook it. McGinnis covered the driver, Tracey flashed his badge...
...month rent for a building; $250 to the Dodges for the working parts; $46 for four tires; $26 for four wheels; $52 for a body; $16 apiece for cushions; and $1.50 a day for workmen (ten or twelve). The car cost $554 complete and $594 with a tonneau and sold for $750 and $850. Ford himself got $3,000 a year, but Frederick J. Haynes, later president of Dodge Brothers, refused to work for Ford at $2,500 a year, because he was not sure where the money would come from...