Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers. He grew up in Trenton, N. J., went to Paris to live when he was 20. After six years he celebrated his homecoming by putting on in Manhattan his Ballet Mecanique with ten pianos, wind machines, an airplane propeller, assorted horns, whistles and bells. The critics' jeers drove him back to Paris. Lately he claimed that he had reformed. Helen Retires was to illustrate his conversion to melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student singers did their parts creditably enough but most of the Erskine lines were lost...
...peroration, slow and methodical. Mr. Gill drove home, into the record, if not into the ears of Commissioner Dillon, the basic theories upon which Norfolk is run, and stated that once upon a time Hurley, Ely, and Dillon had all confessed to favor these ideas. Previously he had informed Governor Ely that if he favored the Norfolk plan, he must also favor the administration, since the terms were synonymous...
...Butler was thrifty. When the racetrack fence needed painting, he painted it on the outside only. When he drove down to Yonkers to attend a race, his squire rode in a disreputable old Ford. For years a band at the racetrack struck up "Wearin' of the Green" whenever a Butler horse won. When Depression affected the track, the band was dispensed with. And it was a Butler rule to sell any horse which did not make money. Next to horses and groceries, Jim Butler devoted himself to Catholic charities, founded a Catholic girls' school at Tarrytown...
...economic factor is a large one in this situation. The construction of the houses drove many other apartment buildings out of business. They were obliged to lower their prices in an effort to get back a portion of their former business. Students can save a great deal of money by living outside...
...their resources, built an abbey above those cliffs and retired there to spend the rest of their lives. King Albert knew that the cliffs were nearly 600 feet high, full of exciting chimneys, crevasses and pinnacles. With only his valet, van Dyck, he jumped in a little car and drove over. At the foot of the cliffs he looked at his watch, recalled that he had an engagement at the Palais des Sports in Brussels that evening. Then he took a rope, a canvas knapsack and a climbing ax out of the rear of the car and started...