Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond drove by hills and valleys, through mill towns and the country seats of the mighty. He tarried at metropolitan hostelries and rural inns. He ran by rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress...
...brought along only Gus Gennerich, his bodyguard, three secret service men and his Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. At the station were his son James and Jacksonville's Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There lay Vincent Astor's white and orange Nourmahal. At the foot of the gangplank Owner Astor met him, grasped his hand and exclaimed: "It's a great thing to have you aboard again, Mr. President...
Several hours later Prisoner Insull, having been fingerprinted and having received back his watch and his $21 in cash from the clerk of the county jail, was set free. He walked out carrying a black suitcase of imitation leather and drove off with his son-in-law, Major William Rafferty...
Beaming Insull walked out and haled a taxicab. Two Turkish policemen leaped in after him, and his face fell. They drove up a back street to a little fifth-rate hotel, got him a shabby room. Ignorant of what it was all about Insull raged and despaired. He sat down on his bed. "I am all alone," he said. "I am a victim of fate." He began to weep...
...knife on raw meat. When one of the crew broke a leg or tore an arm Cook Johnson and the captain used to patch him up. There was generally a "doctor's book'' on board which gave directions. Two years ago senility and a burned leg drove Charles Johnson to New York City's Home for Dependants on Welfare Island. When they asked him what he could do, he told them of his doctoring days at sea. Therefore he was promptly put in charge of the Home's ''ulcer clinic," housed...