Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkey, Mr. Insull had an abscess on his thumb lanced by a jail doctor, was given a health examination and pronounced able to travel. The last appeal of his attorneys was turned down. At 6 one evening six Turkish guards took him from the House of Detention and drove him down to the waterfront in a taxi. Resigned, he went aboard the small steamer Adana and waved good-by to his lawyers on the wharf, reassuring them that they would be paid for their services. During the night the steamer crossed the Sea of Marmora to the Asiatic port...
...proof vests and two revolvers. Pittenger saw they were not looking at him. He ran down the steps, falling once and wrenching his knee. Then he ran on again and hid in an alley. The men came out with the guns and vests. They got in a sedan and drove away...
...were up at dawn one day last week, hurrying to the square in front of the ancient Hotel de Ville. Squads of blue-clad soldiers were already there, keeping the crowds as far as possible from an open space in the square's centre. Soon a rattling wagon drove up, loaded with red-painted timbers, ropes, boards. Trained like circus roustabouts, a crew of workmen sprang into action. In three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped...
That car is much more than a relic of Albert the Good. Ever since he first visited the U. S. in 1898 and learned to drive a locomotive under Railroader James J. Hill, mechanics was a burning hobby with King Albert. Up to the day of his death he drove his own car whenever possible. In the cellar of the Castle Laeken was a complete machine shop where he loved to putter. In that shop he worked with his own hands on a special bullet-proof body for an Excelsior chassis. Palace attaches delicately hinted that a bullet-proof...
...became enraged at a ruling by referee Jack Dempsey, hit him. Referee Dempsey knocked out Combatant Plummer with three quick uppercuts to the chin. Up from a ringside seat scrambled 95-lb. Mrs. Johnny Plummer. She screech-scratched Referee Dempsey into a corner, tore his shirt, pulled his hair, drove him out of the ring...