Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large audience including Chief Justice Hughes sat in the inner court of the new $11,000,000 Department of Justice building and waited 15 minutes until President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley drove up. Then the building was dedicated. The President lent an attentive ear while Attorney General Cummings declared...
...mining engineer, Lieut. Caetani calmly proposed to blow off the entire mountain top. "Let's get under their seats," he said, "and blast." With 80 picked miners Prince Caetani drove a tunnel nearly half a mile long into the living rock, so quietly that the Austrians noticed nothing. Five tons of nitroglycerin were tamped into the galleries. On the night of April 17, 1916 the Engineer Prince was ready...
Considering where the King of Siam spends most of his time, namely, on the other side of the world, there is reason on the Premier's side of the quarrel. But the Old Etonian is a stickler. When the Singapore flash reached England, His Majesty reluctantly drove up from Surrey, released an elaborate statement to the London Press. All most Englishmen cared to read was this: ''The King has intimated his desire to abdicate to the Government at Bangkok. No definite documents of any kind have yet been signed by the King...
Several members of the University aided the Practical Politics Committee by ushering at the meeting, which was previously designed as a Harvard-Radcliffe rally. Lincoln Bryant 2G, Robert L. Clifford 2G, and Oliver H. Straus '36 drove cars in the parade around Cambridge which preceded the rally...
...against changing the Church's name. Meanwhile a committee of Deputies and Bishops had been deliberating over "national and international" problems as important and significant to the outside world as the change-of-name to Episcopal theologians. Yet whereas the change-of-name excited the Deputies and drove Dr. Beale to tears, the national and international problems elicited only weasel words from the committee, whose conservative majority included onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper, Major General Charles Pelot Summerall and Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman...