Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given to Harvard by the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned water wheel. The American Guide Series describes the house as having the "regal air of an 18th Century chateau...
...desk, passenger elevator; to the door of his office building, his office door, the third intermediate door ; to his typewriter, office desk, locker. Cigarets have to be kept in doubly-locked separate chests, and the jeep has to be locked six ways from breakfast, involving keys to the steering wheel, ignition, hood, spare tire, gas tank and tool locker...
Henry Bone, a white restaurant keeper from Waverly, had set out in his 1946 car on a drunken spree. At the wheel was "Blue" Pearson, his chauffeur for 15 years. Beside Pearson sat Roy Lee Johnson, who also had worked for Bone. Both, in the words of Mount Pleasant's white folks, were "good niggers...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where insurance is a must for registration, the mutual companies present a real problem. A fifteen year old auto and a college boy at the wheel, they regard as a poor risk, and more than one wearer of the crimson has been reduced to invocation of the regulation that a twice rejected car must be referred to an insurer by the state...
...Willys-Overland postwar hopeful is a low-slung, short (104-in. wheel base), but ingeniously designed two-door six-cylinder sedan. It seats three in a front seat, two in the narrow rear seat. Other features: independent suspension of front wheels (no axle), and universal joints in the rear axle designed to take much of the bump out of bumps. Proposed price: around...