Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself in all manner of local business and civic enterprises, to make Cleveland his world. Like many another War flier, he flew no more, though instinct obliged him to drive his automobile at unearthly speeds...
...Riverside Drive, Kikuta Nakagawa, one of the many Japanese artists who display their jocose and oriental sneers in the Independents' salon, neatly portrayed a grotesque fat woman walking on the path and leading by the hand a little child who was, one could presume, one of many...
...Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
...motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear for "election expenses" of one kind or another. Thus in the absence of the original funds the Senator from Idaho has inaugurated a drive to raise the necessary...
...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...