Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Palace to the Foreign Office is but a few minutes' drive along the Mall, through the Admiralty Arch and down Whitehall. Thither went M. Briand; there was he joined by le comte de Fleurian, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, by M. Philippe Berthelot of the Quai d'Orsay, and by M. Fromageot, French international jurist. Then began conversations between the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary to decide upon an answer to Germany's recent note relative to the proposed Rhine Treaty which is to guarantee the status...
...They fell in with three amiable young Chicagoans, and all five became intoxicated-the Texans most extraordinarily. That being the case, they decided to take an automobile ride. They piled into a light green automobile, drove north along Michigan Avenue, to the point where it merges into Lake Shore Drive. There they ran past the Drake Hotel, one of the most fashionable in Chicago, and turned east on Walton Place along the north side of the hotel. There they stopped and entered the great building evidently for an elite good time...
...street, the three Chicago youths entered their car. "Texas," following drunkenly, got into the wrong automobile by mistake. Two policemen dashed up. Dazed, he began to fire. One of them shot him through the heart. Three half-drunken robbers in a light green car sped east along Lake Shore Drive, turned south with the shoreline, then west to Michigan Avenue, then north again past the hotel with a burst of speed, having completely circled the scene of their crime. Lincoln Park policemen on the running boards of commandeered automobiles followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences...
Down will come some apartment houses and private dwellings near the Union Theological Seminary on Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Up will go a temple. The tearing down and the building up will be largely financed by John. Davison Rockefeller Jr. In the temple will be a pulpit. And in the pulpit will be Harry Emerson Fosdick...
...Johnston stood the grilling pace (which lasted an hour and a quarter) well. He came off appearing fresh, which was more than he did after his defeat by Tilden at Forest Hills last year (TIME, Sept. 8). But he did not have the drive to meet the drive. Tilden said of himself that he played the best tennis that he has ever played at Chicago. Sandy Wiener of Germantown, Pa., protege of Tilden, lived up to his patron's hopes by taking the Junior Championship 10-12, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 from Berkeley Bell of Austin...