Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last passengers to ride with President Roosevelt in his specially-built touring car, in which he had driven from dawn to dusk during his stay at Warm Springs, were Mrs. Roosevelt and her two inseparable companions, shaggy-haired Nancy Cook and schoolmarmish Marian Dickerman. With these the President drove to the Warm Springs railway station last week, through avenues of cheering neighbors and rows of khaki-clad CCC foresters. His fellow-travelers thought he had taken on a little weight...
Most of last week the real seat of U. S. Government was the front seat of President Roosevelt's specially-built Plymouth touring car. In it for hours at a time he drove along the dried clay roads around Warm Springs, Ga. carrying all problems of state under his soft felt...
...morning last week she drove to the airport, ordered a plane with "plenty of gasoline." With a cheery wave to the field crew she took off, headed east, toward the Atlantic...
...Author, a Manhattan intellectual and theatre enthusiast (he was one of the founders of the Washington Square Players), was graduated from Harvard in 1911 but cannot remember any of his classmates because he "never spoke to a living soul." Before the U. S. entered the War he volunteered, drove an ambulance with the Italian Army. After two post-War years in Paris as stage manager for Jacques Copeau and an abortive attempt to start a U. S. newspaper in Rome, he went back to Manhattan, got a job in Brentano's publishing house, married Fania Mindell, theatrical scene designer...
Pulling up his car in Bonnieres, France, last week, Fulford Patrick Hardy. 22. Ontario socialite, suddenly cracked his mother over the head with the automobile crank, and drove off shouting "I've gone crazy! I've gone crazy!" Such at least was Mrs. Hardy's recollection of what happened before she collapsed. "I can't think why he did it," she added later. "He was such a good cheery boy about the house...