Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, on the first leg of a transcontinental "economy tour" Mr. Cummins drove from Manhattan to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Distance: 496 mi. Fuel cost: 74?, plus 38? tax. Mileage...
...Pops Concert on Monday night was a rather crowded affair, and the reason was that the forty year graduates and families were starting their celebration. Yesterday they all left their headquarters in the Hotel Vendome and drove to the home of Parker W. Whittemore '95, in West Gloucester for an afternoon of sports, while their wives attended a luncheon at the Oakley Country Club. Today the members of the Class and families will lunch, along with 1890, in Lowell House, and attend the festivities in the afternoon. The Algonquin Club in Boston will be the scene of their reunion dinner...
Fabulous, enigmatic Cinemactress Greta Garbo (Gustaffson) began a vacation journey back to her native Sweden and the castle she bought from Ivar Kreuger's estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner...
...Bank thought differently. It built a handsome parlor where ladies could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room furnished with manicuring scissors, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soap. In the coupon rooms the directors thoughtfully provided threaded needles. Black-bonneted dowagers drove their carriages up to the bank by the hundreds to enter their names in the big ledger book which the bank still uses. In 44 years Fifth Avenue Bank has never omitted dividends on its stock, which sells today for $1,000 per share...
...they were getting ready to leave, another U. S. prospector found their hidden camp, promised them all a fortune if they would stay on with him. They might have been tempted if bandits had not picked up their trail and given them a bad scare before the federal soldiers drove them...