Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America took off on a Saturday morning, amid intense public excitement. She chugged out to sea, sent four wireless messages (the first from aircraft) including one reporting that the kitten had jumped overboard and was rescued by a rope. A shifting wind drove the ship off her northeast course. The equilibrator bounced from wave to wave, threatened to wreck the ship. Early Tuesday morning, after traveling 1,008 mi., the America sighted a steamer which came alongside, took Capt. Wellman, crew & kitten aboard. The America vanished into the skies...
...animals get the idea that it is tough, that it can bully other performers. At that night's circus performance Sammy charged him, knocked him down. Next morning Trainer Beatty rounded up four brothers, Leo, Brutus, Nero Jr., King, oldest and toughest lions in his troupe. He drove them into the arena, prodded them to fury. Then he sent Sammy in. Sammy, still feeling tough, made a pass at Leo. The brothers closed in. That night Sammy, licking a dozen bites and scratches, was the meekest animal...
...purple era of rail construction was paling before the War, but it did not end until 1931 when Arthur Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
...minutes later they seized a school-teacher named Louis Dresser who was just starting to school in his car, drove south with him all day and all night. Next morning at a crossroads in Oklahoma they met by prearrangement a car with Texas license plates driven by a woman, who, from Dresser's description, was none other than Clyde Barrow's paramour, the fair, cigar-smoking Bonnie ("Suicide Sal") Parker. There Dresser was released and the convicts drove off with her in the direction of the Osage Hills-presumably to hide with the Texas fugitives. One other Lansing...
...huge Archbishop Leon Tourian, primate of 130,000 souls in the Armenian Apostolic Church in America, before the altar of Holy Cross Armenian Church on Christmas Eve (TIME, Jan. 1). The mob lusted to get their vengeful hands upon the seven, but 75 mounted police charged into the street, drove them back. From nowhere, a patrol wagon whizzed up, out of which seven trembling Armenians were hustled into court. Promptly their case was adjourned...