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Word: droving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realizing my state of elation, one of the officers seized the helm of my car, inquired as to my domicile, whither he drove me, followed by the squad car, and with maternal solicitude did not abandon me to the sleep of Bacchus and Morpheus until he tucked in the blankets and turned out the light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/3/1935 | See Source »

...Taking a large retinue, including his military and naval aides, his physician, his Secretaries Mclntyre and Early and his Postmaster General, the President drove forth, formally opened Washington's baseball season, ate peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...That Patriot's Day last week coincided with Good Friday served only to increase the excitement of the 500,000 enthusiasts who, as usual, lined the 26-mi. course from Hopkinton to Exeter Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden to watch the spectacle, held a strike, watched it anyway. At West Newton, a train killed Bartholomew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...them. When he said, "My heart bleeds for the Newspaper Guild," he really meant that he would like to see newspaper reporters get a better deal. But as Hearst's lawyer in the Call-Bulletin case, he considered the Guild a menace, fought it to a standstill, drove it Leftward toward trade unionism (TIME. Dec. 24). Twitted for defending bankers thrice in two years he explains: "The underdog needs friends. The bankers are so friendless now, even the politicians have courage to attack them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wirephoto War | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...good stable and a pleasant income. The wonder is that she should have written as much as she has. Before the War she was one of a small artistic set which included Painter Lovat Fraser, Poet Ralph Hodgson, Sculptor Gaudier-Brzeska. She met her husband in France, where she drove a car for the French Army and was the first woman in Verdun's fortress after the Armistice. Now she lives with her family in Sussex, is at present on a trip to South Africa with her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wunderkind | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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