Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile driver arrested for almost running over the President on a Washington street (TIME, Sept. 28) was fined $35. Said he: "A gross injustice has been done me. I have driven for six years and never harmed even a chicken or a rabbit. My record is clean, and I have been humiliated and insulted by the Government, not for any wrong, but because I thought the signal of a kiddish' looking Secret Service man was the prank of a small boy, I missed the President by twenty feet...
...Brennan must have sighed a little in distress when Al Smith was driven off to catch a train back home, having made a speech, but not the speech that was to set the west wild...
...Herbert Parsons, 56, lawyer, Republican politician, onetime New York City Alderman (1900-1903), onetime member of Congress (1905-11), onetime (1916-1920) Republican National Committeeman from New York; in the House of Mercy Hospital, Pittsfield, Mass., of a ruptured kidney sustained attempting to ride his son's motor-driven bicycle...
...group of followers, all of them surrounded by a protective cordon of detectives. Henry Moy protested in advance that although five members of his Tong had been slain in a few days, no reprisals had been taken or would be taken: "We shall not do so, unless driven to it in self-defence. Our society is anxious to obey the law. Hip Sings are law-breakers and cannot be depended on to follow out any instructions given by the authorities toward the suppression of disorder...
...pages of Beggars of Life, a hobo biography by Jim Tully. Mr. Anderson borrowed the characteristics of Mr. Tully's dusty nomads and one of his incidents to make a narrative. It is the story of a child of bitter misfortune, a girl seduced by her stepfather and driven by circumstances into a disorderly house. When she had earned a snatch of leisure and money for the trip, she paid a visit to the family, leaving the house unceremoniously, and its owner shattered with lead pistol-slugs...