Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brownstone fronts and Fifth Avenue chateaux, but Chicago had only its sprawling gingerbread Gothic and its Prairie Avenue. Sooty railroads, industry, and worst of all, the "black belt" began to creep up to the gingerbread creations. Society surrendered. It began an exodus to the North Side -to Lake Shore Drive, Astor Street, Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. Not so, Julius Rosenwald-he would stand by the South Side. He did not object to the Negroes; he was their friend; he had given millions for their advancement. Mr. Rosenwald is no idle dreamer. He is a profoundly respected business man (Sears, Roebuck...
...suspenders at Roosevelt Field a fortnight ago. He was "ashamed," tried to suppress the picture. Years ago France's good angel must have whispered to Rene Fonck that he must learn early about fleet machines, for at 13 he began to study mechanical engineering and soon after to drive racing cars. In 1913, aged 18, it took him but two months to earn his pilot's certificate. Since the War he has stayed in civil aviation continuously-except for the eight-day honorary term as mayor of Saulcy-sur-Meurthe, his birthplace in the Vosges. The Motives. Captain...
...train stopped at Ludlow, where the President and his wife entered an automobile to drive out to Plymouth. On the way, their car alone turned aside. Mr and Mrs. Coolidge got out, climbed to the little cemetery on the hill, bowed silently over the graves of son Calvin Jr. and of the President's mother and father...
Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera, no neurasthenic, drew the knife calmly from where it quivered, pocketed it, motioned his chauffeur to drive...
...Doubtless this seeming paradox is explicable by the fact that few experienced motorists drive far over wet roads without snapping anti-skid chains on their tires. *The statistics did not warrant this admonition, showing less than 1% of cases where the driver was intoxicated...