Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night Mrs. Roosevelt drove out to address the Faculty Women's Club of Howard University (Negro). The dusky clubwomen had to threaten to call the police to keep Negro newshawks and cameramen from crashing the party. In the confusion Mrs. Roosevelt found herself alone on the street after the affair. Gallantly Negro Edgar C. Brown, CCC press-agent who has a bushy Vandyke beard, squired her to the White House...
...before leaving Warm Springs last week President Roosevelt drove down to the railway station to meet his military aide, Lieut. Colonel Edwin Watson, who was to accompany him to Chicago. "Come on, Pa," said the President, welcoming the colonel into his car. They tootled through the Foundation grounds, to the wooded hillside where the Presidential Marine guard was tenting. Pointing, the President said: "There's your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will...
Disgruntled at the failure of his joke, the President drove his aide back to the commodious quarters waiting for him in one of the Foundation buildings...
...main air base of central France, near Lyon, plans for sky mobilization in case of war are kept in the colonel's safe. Last week Sergeant Keiffer of the night patrol drove off four strangers with gun fire, rushed into the colonel's office, found the safe drilled almost open and on the floor a kit of brand-new burglar tools...
...m.p.h. and has all its important original parts except a set of pistons and a rear axle drive shaft. Its only serious trouble came five years ago when it took to backfiring. Mr. Satterlee, dismayed, had a new car custom-built for $14,000. First time Mr. & Mrs. Satterlee drove to their Virginia estate in it, both had splitting headaches. The new car was sold, the Crane Simplex put back in use. Last week Owner Satterlee, Builder Crane and Buttner, the Satterlee chauffeur, planned to hold a celebration when the car achieves 299,999 miles, to cover the 300,000th...