Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even potent James Henry Thomas, famed "Balance Wheel of British Labor," was without his usual dynamic optimism as he informed the Congress that the Railway Men's Unions, of which he is General Secretary, are now slightly dwindling in membership. "People," said Mr. Thomas indignantly, "tell the workers not to believe what their leaders say, and say that the leaders have sold them." It is Mr. Thomas who has risen from a grimy engineer's cab to a snug little mansion with flagstone paths in the garden; to playing bridge with Peers; and to enjoying an occasional audience...
...barely any traffic. Why then drop below 100 kilometers per hour (62 m. p. h.), just because the perfect road down which one is whizzing must soon cross another? Sacre bleu! If one is a French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble into the tonneau, crying, "En route Henri! Nous sommes pour Biarritz...
...they attacked us, sank our ships and bombarded our forts. The English monitor Erebus frequently fired her 15-in. guns at our fort, Red Hill. The English broke into our house by the right of might to kill the workers and peasants and to turn back the wheel of revolution...
...Michigan Kid, Wheel of Chance, A Certain Young Man, The Play Girl, Burning Daylight are neither curious nor good...
...Wheel of Chance. Richard Barthelmess plays twin brothers: one is an able district attorney; the other is an unfortunate youth on trial for the murder of his mistress. The outcome of the trial shall remain a secret in these pages. But it shall be revealed that the mistress (Margaret Livingston) meets a painful end. She was a bad woman who drove dozens of men to roulette and worse. In fact, the district attorney himself once thought of butchering her. The story is typical of the heart-twitchings of Authoress Fannie Hurst. There is a subtitle in it: "Life, like roulette...