Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stubborn, the Mongols have gradually talked their Russian patrons out of many Communist innovations unsuited to such nomads as themselves. Today Urga is emphatically the capital of Outer Mongolia, not a mere dependency of Moscow. Mongol Premier Gendun, while he was Dictator Stalin's guest, drove a friendly bargain in Moscow but a bargain definitely to Outer Mongolia's advantage. But for the Russian arms, Russian machine guns and Russian bombing planes which have been rushed to Urga and were last week spectacularly unlimbered, Japanese-Manchurian Armies would soon have tried to sweep all before them...
...little. Modestly says he: "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used o write. ... All he tried to do was to be sincere. . . . The only thing I contributed was a little time which I gambled when I came home from the job of reporting and drove myself to the typewritert o do some writing for myself...
...Smart Cuban lads, placed under the strict guidance of three Roman Catholic priests and educated in English and arts & crafts in the Club's school, these Greensward Sons of "Father Snare" never tire of hailing his greatest greens feat. Last year on his 72nd birthday he drove for the 18th hole, needing a five to make the course in par 72. He made it in six, and every caddy still boasts this a record unbeaten and unbeatable on the Havana course by a man of the years of "Father Snare...
Late one afternoon last week Franklin Roosevelt drove out to Washington's Naval Hospital to see his oldest political adviser, Louis McHenry Howe, abed for a year with heart and lung trouble. The President visited his No. 1 secretary because Louis Howe is the foremost member of the Cuff-Links Gang. This organization is composed of friends who helped Franklin Roosevelt run for Vice President in 1920 and to whom he gave sets of cuff links in remembrance of that unfortunate political campaign. Of late years the Cuff-Links Gang has been getting together with the President to help...
...Johnson Mollison. Sobered, fined $10, Captain Mollison explained in court next morning: "When I consumed three or four cocktails, more or less, it rather topped me. Not at all blotto, you understand, but just jingled, so to speak. I felt top hole but when a couple of your bobbies drove up alongside and suggested that I get in their bus I gladly accepted their invitation. I told them I was on my way to a night club, the Trocadero, and thought they were going to take me there but somehow they missed directions and wound up at the police station...