Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Lord Mayor came the Royal Family's processions, the Duke of York's two carriages, with "Baby Betty" and the newlywed Duchess of Kent rival attractions. As heir to the Throne, Edward of Wales drove out smartly with a cavalcade of Life Guards, his grave aunt, Queen Maud of Norway, at his side and opposite the Duke of Gloucester. As the grand procession climax, came an open landau with King George as a Field Marshal looking as the late great French President Raymond Poincare once described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side...
...Perpetual motion" machines are the patent examiner's biggest annoyance. A popular bicycle idea was one in which, besides the usual chain, there was a second chain connecting the rear wheel with the front wheel. Thus when the bicycle was fairly going, the rear wheel drove the front wheel, which pulled the bicycle, which turned the rear wheel. One inventor of such a bike was pretty persistent. He would not go away until an examiner asked him how he would stop the bicycle...
...caught them with one hand, permitted three men to stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which he guzzled 1,080 steins, missed his goal by 1½ Ib. by only reducing from...
Near Stillwater, Okla. four years ago husky Clyde Cook, 45, and his plump wife Jessie, 40, packed their children into an old automobile, drove north. Drought and Depression had whipped them in Oklahoma. All they hoped for now was to raise enough food for their growing family. At Walker, Minn, somebody told them about a dried-up lake bottom they might farm. Clyde Cook tried it. He kept his family of five boys and two girls alive somehow until the New Deal came along. Then he went on relief...
...chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long's arrival distracted everyone's attention. Then Huey Long drove up with twelve policemen as his bodyguard and stopped to buy a bag of peanuts at the gate. The band struck up "Every Man a King," and Huey, entering with a Bible and a copy of Liberty Magazine under one arm. joined in the chorus. By that time there were...