Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After 18 months of evidence collecting, the restaurant case marked his first courtroom move against New York's industrial rackets, which were the big game Governor Lehman appointed him to track down. On last week's jury verdict hung the probable success or failure of his whole drive to rid the nation's largest city of criminal business parasites (TIME...
...With Her Majesty beside him last week His Majesty drove a car briefly in Windsor, was promptly described as "the first King in British history to drive his Queen in an automobile." George V never drove Queen Mary: Edward VIII drove Mrs. Simpson. She remained last week in France with friends whose chef she last year got appointed chef of Buckingham Palace. He resigned last week, one jump ahead of dismissal by George VI. Meanwhile the letters patent creating the Dukedom of Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor...
...carats. It has been the chief jewel of Queen Mary's Crown, now goes into new Queen Elizabeth's new crown on which London platinumsmiths are rushing work. By an unprecedented alteration in British rules of precedence the extremely popular Queen Mother was last week slated to drive ahead of the King & Queen in the Coronation procession. At previous Coronations it has been customary for a Queen Mother to make no public appearance...
When Tilden and Perry left the court an hour later, Perry would have been justified in calling Tilden the "world's best bad player." Tilden had received more applause (before the match started), attracted more attention (by telling a radio announcer to keep quiet), hit the hardest drive (when he needed a point badly in the third set). But of the four sets played he had taken only the third, which the crowd suspected Perry of dropping on purpose. Score...
...distinguished throat specialist who works in an up-to-date hospital (built from profits from the Irish Sweepstakes), a married man and a father; but readers would hardly guess those facts from his book. Here he steers a carefree bachelor course from pubs to parties, escaping occasionally to drive his plane or shoot seals from a curragh, but always returning to drink with his friends, to be talked at and talk a sizzling blue streak. Only when the talk hovers on politics or poetry does the twinkle leave Gogarty's eye. "But nobody can betray Ireland: it does...