Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denizen of Copley Square and the Mayfair. As if the leaded glass windows and pointed archways were not near enough the road to Rome, the architect of the citadel above Lake Waban placed in the driveway a statue in cold, gray stone, a statue of the Madonna. As he drove up the hill the Crimson editor took notice of the homing Wellesley students ambling along beside his car. Nearing the top, he turned to his companion and, never expecting the half-surprised and half-indignant answer he was to get from outside, said, "Where shall I park, next...
These potent Japanese postulates Dr. Ito drove home with the excuse that Japan had been challenged last week by the Mandates Commission. Some of its more daring members, seeing Italy being jumped on, had ventured to draft questions asking Britain and France why they have not deprived Japan, as a State now outside the League, of trade privileges which only League States are supposed to enjoy with British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria...
...Duke is said to be an even better driver than the Duke of Kent. At the Tidworth Tattoo, during an episode contrasting the modern motor bandit with Dick Turpin, the Duke drove the pursuing car. The thousands of spectators present cheered him wildly for his skill and speed, but not one of them guessed the identity of the driver...
Theme was the thumping old Civil War tune which sounded out rowdily at first, drove its way through elaborate orchestration, occasionally groaning, occasionally sighing, never quite reaching a definite conclusion. Composer Harris had chosen the tune because it was what his father had whistled in the mornings when he went striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma...
...husband heard her frantic screams, lugged her and a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy, who suffered only a few slight bruises on his head, from the 40-ft. pit. Afraid to do anything else, he wrapped wife and child in blankets, drove both twelve miles to a hospital where Dr. John Franklin Foster, child specialist, put them in good condition...