Word: driver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mich., Patrolman Charles Skelly told the guilty driver to come along to the police station to pay the few dollars damage. The driver yanked out an automatic, shot Officer Skelly dead, sped away. When he smashed up his car, he used his gun to persuade motorists to give him lifts. Officers traced the police-killer closely for an hour, then lost him. The wrecked car was registered in the name of Frederick Dane, owner of a commodious home...
...sniper kills their lieutenant and the Arabs steal their horses. Nothing can save them from dying or being shot down on the colorless sand, under the sun like a furnace door, and die they do, one by one-an artist, a vaudeville trouper, a farmer, a clerk, a wagon driver, a prizefighter, an evangelist. Their reactions to the death sentence and the way in which the sentence is executed on each of them is the subject of The Lost Patrol...
...will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested in the reindeer industry as a new meat source. Driver of the herd is Andrew Bahr, expert Lapp herder, who is accompanied by three other Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant and a member of the Alaskan Geographical Survey Department. Reindeer fare in winter is the hardy Alaskan lichen; to get it deer must paw through a foot of snow...
...even in a dry year. Thousands of people from tall corn states went out to Renz's last week, parked their cars, climbed for places on the crook of low hills?a sort of natural balcony?around one field. At noon 13 wagons drove past the crowd. Beside the driver in each wagon sat the finalists in the U. S. cornhusking championship, all of them famous huskers, winners of sectional tournaments. They were young fellows in old work-clothes. Each husker had one bare hand and one hand in a glove equipped with a little steel hook or a sharp...
...very pleased' and 'Please be seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...