Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schaeffer said that after the victim "left" the car he drove two miles up the road, returned, saw the body lying in the road, swerved, passed...
...onetime Long bodyguards leaped to the attack. In the District Attorney's office one of them cornered Associated Press Photographer Leon Trice, who was once knocked unconscious on Huey Long's command, smashed his camera, was commencing to smash him when a little, old U. S. marshal drove him off. In a corridor Colonel Shushan & friends met the other offenders...
...Ethelbert D. Warfield of Chambersburg, Pa.: This community . . . now labors under a misgovernment not very much less than that which drove the ancestors of this population from their native lands...
...engineers' war, and the sappers' greatest feat last week was completing emergency landing fields at Adigrat and Aduwa and finishing the motor road from Aduwa back to Italy's main base at Asmara. No sooner was the road finished than white-whiskered old General de Bono drove over it to Aduwa, covering in three hours the distance that had taken his men three days to capture...
...cadet at Woolwich. Few schoolboys ever had a more impressive sendoff. At Ras-et-Tin Palace, British High Commissioner Sir Miles W. Lampson was on hand for a farewell handshake, a bit of fatherly advice. In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded the British light cruiser Devonshire. With the crew lining the rails at attention, the Devonshire snaked its way through the great armada of British warships jamming Alexandria harbor, made the 124-mile run to Port Said. There the crew...