Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novels (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre). But this new Caldwell story will not give many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye and a ready pistol...
...President drove up to the Capitol to deliver his message on the State of the Union, the hearts of his Secret Service men missed a beat. A man in the crowd close to the car gave an ominous shout. Without waiting to hear what it was they seized and pinioned him, marched him away. All he had shouted was "We want the Bonus!" Police later established that his name was John Alferi, that he was a 47-year-old war veteran from Los Angeles, that he had a pass to the Senate gallery signed by Huey Long. Released, he returned...
...fine frosty morning last week President Roosevelt drove up to the Capitol, entered the House of Representatives' wing, mounted the Speaker's platform...
Seventh president of the Pennsylvania Railroad (1899-1906) was Alexander Johnston Cassatt, "the brains of the Pennsylvania," who launched the campaign that drove the Pennsy under the Hudson River into Manhattan. His son Robert Kelso Cassatt went into the family banking and brokerage firm of Cassatt & Co. Last week Cassatt & Co. announced it would discontinue its brokerage business to become a general investment company. Senior Partner Cassatt and Partner Joseph Walker Wear, Philadelphia socialite, will become partners in the brokerage house of E. A. Pierce & Co., largest wire firm on the New York Stock Exchange...
Spotting their Crimson opponents five handicap goals the veteran White Mountain Polo Ranchers drove to a 16-8 victory over the Harvard Varsity at the Commonwealth Armory Saturday...