Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marshy, wind-raked country. Some distance offshore they came on a school of fatbacks so dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year-old Hampstead native said: "They completely blocked the channel. There were so many and they were so thick they smothered each other to death. Folks carried...
...Commission when he spied a familiar figure rushing down the third-class gangplank. Recognizing Mrs. Lindbergh, he pursued her onto the dock, contrived to get a few blurred shots before the Colonel and his wife, leaving their baggage to be called for later, got into a car and drove away...
...unable to sing Pollione in Norma that night. To three other tenors went Mr. Longone. None of them knew the part. Frantically he telephoned to Manhattan's Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel. Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
...contraption over the same course to an official 311.42 m.p.h. Said he: "It was a hell of a run and I don't mean that profanely." During his second lap, on which he averaged 317 m.p.h. his goggles came loose and he had to adjust them while he drove with one hand...
Arranged for Chicago's Arts Club by pert, attractive Mrs. Robert S. Pirie when she and Mr. Pirie, whose father is president of Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., drove their trailer to Mexico City last year, the show numbered 54 paintings, 36 of them new, by 14 first-string Mexican artists...