Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now on, the story runs riot. The War ends, Peter returns home, his father relents, he marries Georgina amid a swirl of roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...
...minutes later was dead. Meanwhile the assassins had made good their escape from the cabaret. Outside they met a bobby and beat him unconscious in the twinkling of an eye. Out into the road they dashed, held up a passing automobile, forced the driver at pistol points to drive faster than the wind from the pursuing policemen. To all who attempted to stop them they leveled their pistols. Finally, the chase ended. Two patrolmen crowded the fleeing car onto the sidewalk. The patrolmen threatened to shoot. The murderers surrendered. They were Frank Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist...
...letter day on the institutional calendar; but when one has become accustomed to speaking carelessly in terms of millions, any digit with a following of less than six ciphers seems almost trivial. Of the ten million dollars originally hoped for by the sponsors of the present University drive, over eight have been subscribed. Princeton has been equally successful, and Yale has just received another gift of half a million...
...schooled into discipline that for any small section of unauthorized people to attempt to undermine constitutional government by such methods can only have one result, and sooner or later the members who are being badly misled will have to realize it. For any small section to think they can drive a Union with such a history as the N. U. R. to accept any movement made by them is simply beating the air. We again appeal to our members on strike to recognize the situation in all its seriousness so far as they themselves are concerned and get back...
Plut! The ball sped through the air from a good drive. The little man was within an ace of the championship, but a bad slip might prove disastrous. The water-hole was yet between his ball and the hole, and the wind continued to blow...