Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neat bungalow on the Stanford University campus near Palo Alto, Calif., Mrs. Julia M. Place, a real estate agent, drove one of her clients last Memorial Day. She had heard that the house was for rent. She rang the doorbell, waited. When no one came she went around to the back yard, found a black-haired young man stripped to the waist bending over a bonfire. He said his name was Lamson and that he owned the house. ''There was nothing unusual in his actions or speech," said Mrs. Place afterwards. "He asked me to come...
...when lie had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple and the sheep, and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overthrew the tables...
Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean east of the West Indies fortnight ago a mass of hot air began to rise to cooler levels, made heavy rain clouds. Strong Southwest winds hit them, piled them up into a storm, drove them forward, spun them round & round. Out of this counterclockwise rotation with a deep low pressure area at its core was gradually born a tropical hurricane which with a yell of fury headed northwest toward the U. S. coast line 1,000 miles away. As it skirted south of Bermuda it kicked up enormous seas, sent Bermudians scurrying to cover, kept...
...Someone tapped his shoulder. "May I?" asked a blank-faced Dinner Jacket: Three more years, he thought as he crossed the polished floor to the liner's bar, he would be of age, and no more damned guardians. * * * John was cutting cordwood when the postman drove up and rattled at the tin mailbox by the road. "H'lo John" the postman sang out. How d' ye make out?" "Dandy Mr. Clinton. They gave me a scholarship and the state Harvard Club promised to fix things if I get stuck. I got a job for my meals, and I guess...
...Reynolds led Brown Berry to the last turn, when a third horse, Hollyrood Portia, left the ruck and set out after her. As Mary spun around the turn, Driver Egan desperately cut Brown Berry inside her. At the same time Hollyrood Portia swung wide outside her. Three abreast, they drove down the stretch like a cinema chariot race. While the crowd roared at the season's greatest finish, Brown Berry found a little extra in his tough hind legs, won by a hand. Mary Reynolds had enough left to beat Hollyrood Portia by the same margin...