Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unexpectedly Eadgar comes to visit their worried household, where Aelfrida yearns for glamorous court life and Aethelwold's treachery burns constantly in his heart. Mr. Taylor's cellos breathe chromatic sights. The henchman is driven to reveal to his wife his perfidy: how he deprived the King of her beauty, her of a queen's throne. If she loves him, let her hurry to make herself appear ugly, bent, broken, scarred, withered, that the King may find his brother innocent of treason...
...reasons offered by Princeton authorities for their ban on student-driven and owned automobiles, one is paradoxical and the other open to question. The fact that there has been a "frequency of fatal accidents" in Princeton is not common to that town alone. The law, by establishing an age limit which happens to be under that of the average undergraduate, has apparently given the student a legal right to drive a car. Therefore in forbidding automobiles at Princeton on the count of reckless driving, the university appears to take the stand that pursuit of learning and not tender years...
Editorial writer for the New York World: "Is it possible that the American Nation, in its desire to bring itself to a high educational standard, has driven its school machinery at too high a speed...
...Both Northern and Southern leaders have affirmed that they would afford full protection to foreigners but this statement has not been strictly adhered to Foreign property has been seized and in some cases destroyed, missionaries have been driven from interior points and bodily harm to them has been reported in some instances. This, however, is usually the work of irresponsible mobs...
...Another man having driven a car away and parked it in the vicinity of a downtown theater rushed in late that night and reported it stolen. When found the next day where it had passed the night in lonely solitude the mileage confirmed the suspicion that it had merely been mislaid...