Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: "Here, Mr. Rockefeller, take this as a little token of your wonderful drive. Be sure and don't spend it too fast...
Referring pointedly to the U. S. Naval program (TIME, Feb. 27), he piously declared: "Nothing ... is going to drive us ... into a great naval competition with America or anybody else...
...line drive hit John McGraw in the right ankle which swelled up. McGraw, who had a dancing date that evening, sent out for crutches, had an X-ray taken, spent a day in his room, came down to the field next day with a camp stool, a cane, a crutch, and a megaphone. Later in the hotel he called the squad round him, put them through tactical drill he calls "skull practice...
...Ochs (born March 12, 1858 in Cincinnati, Ohio). From newsboy and printer's devil in Knoxville, Tenn., he had risen to publisher of the New York Times. Said Alfred Morton Cohen, of the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan, where Mr. Ochs is chairmanning a $5,000,000 endowment drive: "As Adolph Ochs has climbed rung by rung the ladder of fame and fortune, his love for his fellowmen has increased more and more...
...temporarily forgot all vows. The brunette borrowed his cigaret lighter, a present from his wife, and May discovers all. Alarmed, she telephones a mauve musician (Andre Beranger) and the two slip under the lap robes of the car in which the philandering pair are taking a speedy moonlight, midnight drive...