Word: underslung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike Postman Smith's contraption, the commercial scooter is a two-or three-wheeled affair. It can go up to 35 miles an hour, runs 120 miles on a gallon of gas. Underslung between small, pneumatic-tired wheels, it has handlebars like a motorcycle, a footboard on which the driver puts his feet, an enclosed engine housing over the rear wheel on which he sits. Unlike either bicycle or motorcycle, it can be ridden sitting straight up, with a minimum loss of dignity. The rider straddles no crossbar, has no engine between his knees to oil his slacks...
...never thought of such a diabolical scheme. Is the next Long-Coughlin-Johnson battle going to be waged over Harvard University? We hope so, we have written them all about it and Mr. Richberg for good measure. To think that Harvard has a real chocolate soldier with an underslung vocabulary...
...when as an able young man of 37 he organized Central Trust Co. of Illinois. Under his guidance it grew into the Loop's third largest bank. The chief complaint of Banker Dawes, 67 last fortnight, is that he can no longer obtain underslung hubble-bubble pipes. Though the institution he built may be razed, Banker Dawes could probably take with him at least $50,000,000 of old Central Republic deposits if he decided to found a new bank...
...first time in years Charles Gates Dawes was photographed smoking not his famed underslung pipe, but a conventional curved-stem briar...
...confused with the underslung model sent by General Dawes to Mayor Herriot, who has smoked the contraption once or twice (see front cover). Once or twice General Dawes has also smoked the Herriot briar he received as a return gift. * Party names mean next to nothing in France. The Socialists, though great mouthers of Marxism, are almost as moderate in practice as Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald. The Radical Socialists, instead of being more radical than the Socialists are in fact only Liberal...