Word: truckful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some time, General Motors has had a hankering to enter the profitable business of making auto buses. It has been repeatedly rumored that the big auto concern was out after Mack Truck. Quite unexpectedly, however, came the news that it would take over control of the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. shortly, to be re-christened the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing...
...next speaker was what might be called a self-made politician. He was born in the wharf district beneath the island end of Brooklyn Bridge. His truck-driver father died when he was 12. His only education was a brief period in a parochial school. His youth was spent as a clerk in a fishmarket. Then he began to hold electoral office and has held it ever since except for two years. He just grinned, and was human and able. Three times he was elected Governor of his state by impressive majorities. Only lately he fought to a standstill...
...exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends Claude by putting his heart in a harlot's handbag. The immediate cause of so much frustration is given in Claude's stuffy mother, two fat, fretful aunts and an uncle with cold-storage hands...
...Boonton, N. J., the Board of Fire Wardens held a contest to raise funds for a new fire truck, asked the citizens of Boonton to guess how long it would take a fully wound watch to run down. One T. C. Carbonell guessed 34 hours 35 minutes. In 34 hours, 34 minutes, 52 seconds, the watch ran down...
These followers of the great Moliere, who was himself once a vagabond, have on occasion received the treatment of vagabonds. At one point the entire troupe was nearly thrown into the lockup when State police mistook the truck and its variegated riders for gypsy bootleggers. On another occasion, when the Players were mistaken for gypsies, they were escorted out of the state...