Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bergoff's business has been hit hard by Depression. Therefore the Bibb job, though small, was welcome. But it turned out badly. Georgia's Governor Talmadge declared martial law, drove the strike breakers out of the State after only two days' work. Bergoff failed to collect full pay from Bibb. Then eight strikebreakers complained to New York State's Bureau of Labor Welfare that Bergoff had not paid them in full...
Castrati were employed not only in the papal choir, but also in the Italian theatre, because the Church forbade appearance of women in both places. Force of public opinion drove the castrati from the Italian stage about 1800. But, in the indignant words of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th Edition), "they remained the musical glory and moral shame of the papal choir till the accession of Pope Leo XIII." Last great castrato was Professor Alessandro Moreschi, who entered the papal choir in 1883 at the age of 25, remained 30 years...
...America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject-the fiscal policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund par. The Hoover health had been restored solely by short morning walks near his Palo Alto home with his elkhounds "Weegie...
...lifted up the hammer, and she smote with might and main And hit the nail and drove it smack through the sleeper's brain. The moral of this story of Sisera and Jael: You can never trust a woman with a hammer and a nail...
...Chairman-President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel drove the last rivet in his long-delayed merger with Corrigan, McKinney (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934). After stockholders of both companies ratified the proposal at simultaneous meetings in Cleveland and Jersey City, N. J., Tom Girdler announced that he and his fellow steelmen were "fairly optimistic" for the first time since...