Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had the fact become known than Thomas Whelpley became a human interest story. All Manhattan newssheets gave him stories, while the World paid him to attach his name to a series of articles recounting his experiences. The series told: about a woman who entered his cab saying "Drive me to Hell!", plunged through her biography in luridly improbable terms, drank liquor from a bottle and implied an improper proposal in her admission that she had no money to pay the fare; about two Negresses, who, while sitting in Thomas Whelpley's cab, engaged in a long conversation...
...Imperial Family, then setting out for Siberian exile, chanced to drive through the village of Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...
...Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...
...With regard to the Jews, the subject is very difficult, but it is better to put the matter frankly," said Insurance Manager H. C. Normington, last week. "In a great number of cases when Jews hire a car they pack it with families and children and drive off for a joyous day's outing in an irresponsible way, not caring a straw about the car, because it is insured. They hire a car for the day and get the absolute maximum...
...grandson of John D. Rockefeller's old partner in Standard Oil, son of the yachting Colonel, brother of beautiful, sensational Millicent, onetime Countess Salm and now Mrs. Arturo Ramos, does not object to dirty fingernails. In the Cleveland laboratory of Engineer E. M. Fraser, helping perfect an electric drive for automobiles, young Rogers, Oxford graduate, declared: "I would rather cast a generator part than anything else I can think...