Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening would tend to disillusion those who would take this protection too literally. On the evening of the President's visit, I, in a slightly intoxicated, though by no means drunken, condition, waited with the small group outside of the Club to see the President leave. As he drove along Mt. Auburn .Street I slipped by two or three cops and was beside his car-so near in fact that I could easily have grabbed his hat which he waved out of the window of his car. Without the slightest bit of trouble I could have jumped...
Final fusillade in last week's radio lampooning came from Father Coughlin who took 45 min. on the air to call General Johnson a "flush Bourbon," a "cracked phonograph record," a "political corpse," a "prince of bombast." "The money changers whom the priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province...
...students who come and go in their brief generations knew her but slightly, but the members of the faculty, most of whom she greeted by name, will feel a real and sincere sorrow at finding her missing from her accustomed place. Each day she drove in from Bedford in her own car. Most of those who for a long time have been closely connected with the Society cannot remember a day on which she was not at her post. It is fitting that reverent notice be taken of the passing of a much beloved Harvard figure...
Dean escaped unscathed for two innings, coasting behind a six-run attack which the Cards put on in the first inning, but in the third, the Phillies scored three runs and drove him to the showers with another onslaught in the fourth. Harrell and Ward finished...
...first round, Fuller landed short vicious lefts to Ambers' head. The second round was even. For the next twelve, Ambers drove his opponent around the ring, punching him as often as stamina would permit. In the 15th, with the decision safely won, the same bravado that caused him to sign for the fight in the first place made Ambers open up in an effort to effect a knockout. It nearly cost him the fight when Fuller's right landed on the point of his jaw and a hard left opened a cut on his eye. When the bell...