Word: traffic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearst Jr. is vivacious, modest but not diffident. He is married and lives in Manhattan's Ritz Tower. When he drives his special-bodied Cadillac to the American office every traffic cop grins at him gratefully, and he stops often to pass the time of day. His license plates bear the simple legend 1. The car of his beauteous young wife, San Francisco's one-time debutante Alma Walker, has the license number 2. Hearst Jr. has not forgotten his Hollywood friends; Cinemactors Norman Kerry and Charles Farrell are among his intimates. With Songwriter Irving Berlin, Lawyer Richard Knight...
...Paulo, Brazil, a street car crashed headlong into a circus elephant. The front of the car was smashed, the elephant lay unconscious. For two hours he held up traffic, while his mate stood by. trumpeted, allowed no one to approach...
...15?New Ambassador Bridge (Detroit to Windsor, Ont.) open for traffic...
...interest, and it is expected that nearly a capacity crowd of 57,000 will be in the stands at the time of the opening kickoff, 2 o'clock. It is the reported strength of the well-balanced Holy Cross outfit that is arousing all this interest and causing the traffic congestion comparable to that on the day of a Yale game...
During the last two weeks, an organized campaign has been carried on by the traffic division of the Cambridge Police Department to secure the numbers of all drivers who have been using automobiles registered in foreign States. According to Sergeant J. R. King, the drive has already resulted in the registration of over 50 machines illegally within the State after the 30 days allowed to out-of-State cars. This total includes students from Harvard, Radcliffe, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...