start-and-stop

Updated: May 31, 2025

"Of course, you know, I dislike those machines, but," Miss Herron confessed, with a fair show of sincerity, "I am rather eager to be present at this meeting." She surveyed with critical eye the deep-cushioned seats, the heavy springs, then the tiller and the various start-and-stop levers. "You think there'll be no danger?" "Not the least. I'm sure you'd not be afraid, Miss Herron."

Various - Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905