Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night they watched graceful Siamese dance exhibitions or sipped drinks under the fake banana trees of the Silver Palm Club. The more adventurous let fleet-tongued, fleet-footed samlor (pedicab) boys wheel them off to the Cathay Night Club, where they jitterbugged the night away with wriggly Siamese taxi dancers. (Lest the visitors get any improper ideas, signs at their hotels informed them sternly: "It is forbidden to entertain lady guests in the bedroom without permission of the management...
...memory of seagoing Novelist Joseph Conrad, who died 25 years ago, Novelist Christopher Morley took to sea from Manhattan with an old teakwood ship's steering wheel. Salvaged in Tasmania from the hulk of the barque Otago, Conrad's first command, it was in Morley's keeping on its way back to England for permanent display...
Margaret Truman laid aside her pitch pipes and throat sprays to spend a "restful weekend" in Newport, R.I. with Madame Minister Perle Mesta, attended an American Legion carnival and rode the Ferris wheel with her hostess...
More Responsibilities. One day in 1934, father Albert, an ardent mountain-climber, fell to his death from a cliff near Namur. A year and a half later the new King Leopold was motoring with Queen Astrid near Lucerne, he at the wheel and she with a map in her lap. When his wife asked a question, the monarch leaned over and the car swerved. It plunged down a grassy slope, hit two trees and fell into the lake. The Queen fractured her skull, died 20 minutes later. The King hurtled through the car's windshield. To the first policeman...
...whack. The 1,710 horses in his mahogany-hulled boat relaxed; My Sweetie came almost to a stop. Wild Bill, a veteran of Indianapolis' 500-mile auto race, quickly reached under his dashboard for the gasoline-control rod, finished the heat with one hand on the wheel and the other on the throttle rod. After that, the last two heats were easy. After repairs, Wild Bill and My Sweetie not only won the race but set a new record (78.6 m.p.h.) in the third heat...