Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of things to consider. It's easy to start out-but rather hard to carry through." Mrs. Dall detrained at Truckee, Calif. Thence she, her children, a Negro maid, three watchful Secret Service men, and Lawyer Samuel Platt who served Elliott Roosevelt a year ago, drove away in motor cars at 60 m.p.h. to escape trailing newshawks. In half an hour she arrived at Lake Tahoe and entered the seven-room cottage, on the Nevada shore, which she had rented for her six-week residence in Nevada. Said Attorney Platt: "I will not say whether she will charge...
...small child in slippers drove a tinkling herd of milk goats through the streets of Sofia at dawn last week and stumbled over a rifle. A little further on lay an ancient shotgun. One of the goats nibbled at a couple of hand grenades lying in the gutter. In all Bulgarian cities similar debris littered the streets, for the cautious citizenry had suddenly decided that their new Premier, one-eyed Kimon Gueorguieff, meant what he said...
...Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet of trains, shuttled back & forth over the Cutoff, held a mighty barbecue, drove ceremonial silver spikes. Running time for passenger trains between Denver and Salt Lake City over this newest transcontinental line had been cut a good eight hours...
...proud pleasures were Postmaster General Farley's last week. One morning he drove to his office on Pennsylvania Avenue near 12th Street. Instead of stopping as usual at the old Post Office Department Building, that blackened square of granite with cone-capped towers, one of the finest examples of Benjamin Harrison architecture in Washington, his car kept on across 12th Street and came to a stop before a new building with classic white marble columns. "General" Farley was moving into the new $8,500,000 home of his Department. A fair home it was, not so ostentatious...
Bright & early one morning Alexis Mdivani, best married of the three marrying Georgian princelings, left his rooms in London's swank Hotel Claridge and drove out to Ranelagh for some polo. No sooner had he left than his young wife, Barbara Hutton Mdivani, flounced out of Claridge's too, and retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string...