Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor car from Buckingham Palace was at the Vienna station and slipping behind its wheel the King drove Mrs. Simpson to their favorite Bristol Hotel, at which they stopped a year ago when he was Prince of Wales. After lunch His Majesty went to a public bath with his chauffeur and six detectives, booked his own ticket at the wicket. Handing this to an Austrian bathwoman who did not recognize him, the King was scrubbed and, with his chauffeur and detectives all in a state of nature, walked about the vapor room where His Majesty was recognized by goggle-eyed...
Terror over Barcelona. If Madrid was enthusiastic last week Barcelona was delirious with popular excesses as its Anarchists, Syndicalists and Communists drove President Luis Companys of their autonomous Catalonia nearly frantic...
...frightful scandal in the hospital-the chief of staff was supplying maidens to an aged voluptuary-he insisted on exposing it, took the story to the man for whom the virgins were provided. Soon his lack of understanding of the people around him made him see enemies everywhere. He drove away patients by telling them his troubles. But when he died Charles could see his career clearly, realized that from then on "he must live his father's life and complete...
When the catalogs arrived, the local merchants organized a purchase-at-home-jubilee, soon found they had a different kind of celebration than they had planned. Spike's new baby had died, and he was in a bad, quarrelsome mood. When an unoffending Negro drove his car into Spike's taxi, Spike thrashed him. Eagle Catoosa, in one of his involved courtships, hired Spike to take him to see his girl. The girl was being escorted by Red Currie, who had just received his new Sizzle Pants and thought he was making a good impression. When the girl...
...Irish revolution as material for his fiction, and concentrated on tragedies of peace more compatible with his peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics...