Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With quarterback Roosevelt temporarily out of the game, sojourning in the sunny south, the Washington ball-toters emerge from the huddle with four different players, each calling separate signals. Ickes insists on an aerial thrust, "Bigger and Better Government Spending," and Moffet wants a power drive, "Let Private Business Do It." To complicate matters further, Hopkins demands a PWA play as Wallace insists his triple A threat will deliver the goods. This is a fascinating spectacle in all its ironic humor recalling satirical memories anent Ford's famous Peace Ship of some twenty years ago. All we need...
When even the Varsity's second-half drive had failed to injure Yale's 14-0 lead, Harvard laid another football season in the morgue and turned away from it to consider the vital question of the outlook for next year and the possibility for a change in both coaching staff and schedule...
...graceful "banjo'' drive to "The Hermitage" swept the President's car. He was led inside, had his attention called to the wallpaper given by Marquis de La Fayette, was seated at the head of Andrew Jackson's dining table for just the kind of breakfast that "Old Hickory'' relished. First came savory country sausages and fried apples with cinnamon, followed by a superb dish of turkey hash with beaten biscuits, hominy and eggs scrambled with browned cornmeal. The President was then taken outside for a view of the Jackson tomb. He also cocked...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...south of France. To avoid demonstrations of affections for himself and possible violence to his enemies in Paris, M. and M'me Doumergue left their home by motor at 3:45 a.m., carried sandwiches so that they need stop at no restaurant on their 325-mile drive...