Word: winton
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Turn-of-the-century Detroiters considered it a pretty good gag: a team of horses pulling a "horseless carriage" through the streets day after day, with a sign fastened to the auto: "This is the only way you can drive a Winton." The Winton agency failed to see the humor. Just because they had refused to refund a dissatisfied customer's money, the fellow was taking his revenge in this crude manner...
...Winton struck back. They warmed up one of the company's two-cylinder trail blazers, hitched a wagon to the rear end, loaded a work-weary old jackass into the wagon, and attached a sign of their own: "This is the only animal unable to drive a Winton." Wherever the horse-drawn Winton went, the Winton and wagon followed. The disgruntled customer tired of it before the agency...
...furniture for the new graduate dormitories is no more functional than the old, according to Winton U. Solberg, proctor of Conant Hall, who has been testing the chairs and desks in his own suite...
...sinecure, first established in 1351. Its traditional duties involve managing royal estates, making local appointments to the tune of a couple of hours a week. Former holders: Winton Churchill (1915), Sir Oswald Mosley...
...fiercely competitive U.S. automobile industry, an ailing company seldom gets a chance for a comeback. The industry's history is studded with once famous names (Hupmobile, Chandler, Peerless, Winton, Pierce-Arrow, etc.) which went under. Nine years ago it looked as if Hudson were limping down the same rocky road to dissolution...