Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea. They have made people think that his golf is a joke. Whenever an old man is holding up a crowded course, putting from one side of the hole to the other, or standing bent in an interminable stance, one golfer will say to another, "Heavens, don't drive, Marjorie! That must be John D. Rockefeller." Last week Mr. Rockefeller gave answer to his mockers. He walked out onto a tee of his course at Ormond Beach, Fla., selected a driver, and chatted for a few moments with a lady. Then he stooped, bowed his head, and struck...
...Riverbank Court. Memorial Drive, I am going to lean back complacently in my chair at 1 o'clock and listen to two greater vagabonds than I, expound principles on which my life is based. Glenn Frank has wandered from Wisconsin to talk on "The Revolt Against Education" and Sir John Adams has strayed across the Atlantic to give his ideas on "The Now Individualism in Education." They are both charter members of the famous order...
...Harvard Fund is intended to operate, not for any one day or generation, but for all time. It is entirely dissociated from any idea of a "campaign" or a "drive" and should have about it nothing that is either formidable or forbidding. Its sovereign importance is that it shall exist in perpetuity to receive annually whatever a graduate may care to give. The very idea of unrestricted funds precludes any suggestion of fixed amount: There is, and will be, no quota. If the number of men contributing is satisfactorily large, the aggregate amount contributed will undoubtedly be satisfactory also...
...First Sea Lord Churchill used to drive gouty Admirals to distraction, by asking them suddenly, now and then: "What would you do if war were declared tomorrow?" He used to gaze nervously each morning at a chart on which the exact position of every major ship of every navy in the world was shown. And he used to make extremely hot-headed speeches advocating his "Home Rule" Irish policy...
Miss Hurst's style is irritating. Constant repetition and a confusing habit of referring to the narrator as "You," drive the reader quite frantic. One is forced to admit that one is impressed by the personal use of you, but when one finds page after page of "You, Laura Regan, the bride, His." "God. You. Beloved" one becomes depressed as Miss Hurst herself would express it, by "The tedium. The tedium. The tedium...