Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limousine containing a white-whiskered gentleman drove up to the White House, and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes went in to share a tray lunch on the desk of President Roosevelt. While they gravely munched their meal, they gave their attention to fulfilling the last wishes of a man they both admired: the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes who left half of his $550,000 estate as a gift to the U. S. Question was whether the gift should merely be dumped into the General Fund of the Treasury or set aside for some special purpose. Music lovers were suggesting...
Stork Guffaws. Not superstitious, Bridegroom Göring masterfully ignored the general belief that one should not see one's bride on the wedding day before the ceremony. Piling his great bulk into an open Mercedes, already half full of roses and tulips, he drove to his Emmy's house on the same swank street as the U. S. Embassy, picked her up, drove on to the Realmchancellery, picked up Best Man Adolf Hitler and drove down a lane of 33,000 uniformed Nazis of both sexes...
...Depression those millions seem a vast sum to doctors. Although Life Extension Institute examiners tell 100,000 people a year that they need medical attention and had better see their own physicians, doctors nonetheless set up such a sustained grumbling that they last week drove Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. of New York State into court demanding that the Life Extension Institute be dissolved, that its rights, privileges and franchise be forfeited, that a receiver be appointed to liquidate its affairs, that an injunction be issued restraining the Life Extension Institute, President Ley and other officers from exercising their...
...fascinated Europe last week. One soared up from Rome with Benito Mussolini at the controls and fought its storm-tossed way over the Apennines. Setting the trimotored ship down at last near Dovia di Predappio, his birthplace in the Romagna, Il Duce tossed his flying helmet to a mechanic, drove off to concentrate at his country home on what moves he will make this week on Europe's chessboard when he opens the Stresa Conference...
...second barrel, with a far heavier charge, drove home the shot of the first...