Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other old boys, attended a baseball game and in the evening addressed a dinner in honor of Dr. Peabody. At midnight the presidential special set out from Worcester again and next morning the Roosevelts detrained at their home, Hyde Park. There the President took a Sunday's rest, drove out with Mrs. Roosevelt to view the crops growing on his ancestral acres...
Only three days before, at the hour that Ambassador Caffery was due to leave for church, a motor car drove past his home and its occupants fired a fusillade, mortally wounding one military guard. Next day the automobile of First Secretary H. Freeman Matthews was assaulted only a short distance from the Caffery residence, but Secretary Matthews was not in it. All Havana seemed to be seething with anti-U. S. feeling and the assassination of the U. S. Ambassador would have been welcomed by many...
With the gay little "Admirals' March" nine Cabinet members one after another were piped over the side of the cruiser Indianapolis docked at a Manhattan pier early one morning last week. Then everybody fidgeted, waiting for President Roosevelt. Finally after 15 minutes he drove up in a touring car whose narrow tonneau he, his full-sized wife and New York's roly-poly mayor LaGuardia more than filled. The ship's band played "The Star Spangled Banner" and the President rode down the Hudson through the narrows and out of New York Harbor for his first review...
...Allan Roy Dafoe. a stocky little grey-haired practitioner who has delivered some 1,500 children in frontier Ontario, leaped nimbly into his clothes when Ovila timidly rapped at the door. In the doctor's Dodge they drove back to the Dionne house...
...fetched a potato scales and weighed the lot in the clothesbasket: 13 Ib. 6 oz. The Dionne roosters were crowing for dawn while Dr. Dafoe washed up, eased his suspenders, donned his coat and drove back to his wifeless, book-filled home. He needed a little sleep, for later that day he expected another confinement...