Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bags, but President Roosevelt had plenty of things to do and people to see before leaving Washington last week for his inspection of the Tennessee Valley Authority and his annual autumn vacation in Georgia. When they were all done and seen he put on a powder-blue suit, drove to the Union Station, boarded his special train...
...exult: "It's great stuff, isn't it!" Dr. Morgan remarked that the lake behind the dam will have an 800-mi. shoreline. "If we start to rent cottage sites along the shoreline we'll make a fortune," joshed the President. Down the bluff they drove to see some workers, whom President Roosevelt addressed as future "veterans" in a "new kind of war-a war to improve the conditions of millions of our American people...
...Just as the automobile drove the less convenient horse and buggy off the street, as the steamship out-sailed the sailing ship, as the printed book displaced the handwritten manu script, so will radio outdo the slower, more expensive and cumbersome newspaper, as a distributor of news...
...when Tallulah Bankhead was born at Huntsville 32 years ago. Without tarrying long on the stage of her native land, this daughter of a Congressman and niece of a Senator went to England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight thing called Forsaking All Others. As her present vehicle, Dark Victory won no critical nominations for the Pulitzer...
...himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last year he opened his present restaurant in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan...