Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regular winter drive for clothes which is conducted by the Phillips Brooks House each year will start today and continue through Thursday. All men who have clothes which they do not need are requested to hand them in to the student in their entry who is collecting for the P. B. H. These clothes are given to needy students in the college and to various settlement houses in Cambridge. If any student cannot find the collector in his entry he can obtain the information by calling the Phillips Brooks House...
...last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...
...Paris, the taxicab drivers are wild and rapacious; they drive fast and they frighten old ladies, by sneering, into paying them exorbitant prices. As a result they are not popular among women; one taxi-driver in Paris, a mild though bearded fellow, posted last week this notice on his cab: "Wanted: a wife. I want to marry. 1 own this cab. The girl must be well...
...Cambridge, Mass., while out for a drive last week, one Harold Lloyd was arrested for 1) operating under the influence of liquor; 2) possessing no registration; 3) possessing no license; 4) misappropriating an automobile; 5) driving recklessly; 6) being drunk; 7) failing to report an accident; 8) stealing an automobile. Judged guilty on the first six counts, he was imprisoned for 30 days and subjected to fines totalling...
...since No. 209 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, is still Arthur W. Cutten's home, it has been necessary for him to have a Wall St. representative actually on the trading floor. Such a representative he has found in his nephew, Ruloff Cutten.† If Uncle Cutten is the brain of the combination, Nephew Cutten is certainly its vigorous tongue, its potent legs. There is no more active bustler on the floor of the exchange than Nephew Cutten...