Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almost all of our toys are electric," the dazzled Serbian moppets were told by 11-year-old King Peter. An earnest child, His Majesty then sat down at the wheel of his electric automobile, commanded favored child subjects to climb in behind, sedately drove the car around his palace grounds. Meanwhile, 7-year-old Prince Tomislav was out on the Palace lake, piloting other moppets in the King's electric boat. Astonishing, however, was the turn of royal duty done by 6-year-old Prince Andreja. Moppets lisped in Serbian-English after the party that "Pwinth Andwea wode...
...came in the sixth. Bland, graceful, incorrigibly calm, Louis stalked Carnera across the ring, drove a right to his jaw. Carnera fell, dragged himself up, crashed down again, with another right to the jaw. Louis, an amazingly motionless figure, outlined against the ring lights, leaned on the ropes for a moment. When Carnera was on his feet again, Louis moved in, landed a crashing left. As Carnera got up for the third time, he had just presence of mind enough left to turn toward the referee before Louis had time to hit him again. Referee Arthur Donovan stepped between...
More than 8,000 Iowans praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
Last Sunday morning Investigator Rabell drove over from his home in Pelham, N. Y. to the Jones estate in Scarsdale. Dressed in white linen, the smart, baldish accountant was led into the Jones study, which was fairly crawling with microphones and dictaphones-under the desk, under the couch, in the portiéres, behind the radiators and pictures, in the radio cabinet. Upstairs two court stenographers recorded every word, and a platoon of lawyers and officials listened in. Mr. Jones was particularly pleased that SECounsel Burns was on hand...
...foot stove that steamed and sizzled on the running board, had been abandoned. Colonel Christmas of the Indian Civil Service had organized the trip because he made a point of never returning to India over a route he had traveled before. Now his leave was almost up and delays drove him frantic. Absentminded, he once crawled under his car to work on it, fell sound asleep. He drove with fierce intensity, getting a death grip on the steering wheel, gritting his teeth, while he raced along at 20 m. p. h. Swanky Mrs. Christmas puzzled Traveler Balfour: in a great...