Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to the nation over the heads of the Supreme Court, President Roosevelt had shrewdly avoided all technical particulars about amending or rewriting the Constitution. While the country stewed over his provocative generalities, the No. 1 New Dealer who now wants to deal again, drove to the Washington Navy Yard, waved a cheery good-by to friends ashore, sailed down the Potomac for a weekend's rest on the Sequoia...
Farmer Bonifas and his large family took George in, fed him, dried his stockings, gave him a pair of girl's shoes. Then Farmer Bonifas got out his old automobile, drove George to the telephone office at Renton. He was told it was too early to make a call. He then drove to a filling station, called the Weyerhaeuser home in Tacoma, 20 miles away. No one answered. At last, after the filling station man had shut off his noisy air compressor, Farmer Bonifas made the police of Tacoma understand that he had on his hands the most sought...
...raid and for impersonating an officer, Baptist Eskridge was arrested last week. To his intense wrath, his arrester was Orange's Police Chief Ed O'Reilly, a friend whom he had baptized into his church. Though the charges were dropped, Baptist Eskridge brooded. Other friends said he drove furiously around Orange all one night. Next day Police Chief O'Reilly was standing on a street corner. An automobile whizzed by. From it barked a shotgun. Orange's police chief fell dead...
...State carriage, escorted by Argentine grenadiers, the two Presidents drove along the boulevards to the Presidential palace and a lobster dinner. After that the week...
...Weyerhaeuser chauffeur drove up. Anne came out. Together they waited minute after minute for little George. When he failed to appear, they hurried home to tell his parents who started a search of the neighborhood. At 2 p.m. the Weyerhaeusers notified the Tacoma police of their son's disappearance. The Governor of Washington dispatched a special detachment of the state patrol to join the hunt. Within 24 hours 15 Department of Justice operatives from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco had converged by plane, train and car on Tacoma. The fearfully expected ransom note, posted at 6 p.m., signed "The Egoist...