Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicagoans, most excursionists to their World's Fair, recall with mingled emotions the turreted and crenellated brownstone "castle" abutting on lower Lake Shore Drive. The two acres of pleasaunce surrounding it confirm the impression of burlesque medievalism, of an architect strong in his delusion that a parapet here, a battlement there, comprise the ancient dignity of Kenilworth, Warwick, Elsinore, Tintagel...
Citizens of the Republic were put on their metal, last week, when the National Society of Medicine and Surgery urgently appealed to Brazilian philanthropists in connection with its drive to educate midwives, mothers...
...another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time. Said Father Claus: "No other man has beaten...
...Pink Pearl is taken to Linga, across the Gulf. There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...
After three days of complete rest from the steady drive of the regular practice sessions, the University football squad will return to action on Soldiers Field this afternoon to launch its final drive in preparation for the climatic clash with the Yale bulldog, less than two weeks off. The Crusader contest this Saturday will be an excellent opportunity to set the Crimson gridiron machine in motion once again and oil up the rusty cogs before the biennial journey to the Bowl at New Haven...