Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once drove the distance in 4 hr. 20 min. in a Ford from a small town 40 mi. north of San Francisco. I always drive to Lake Tahoe in not over five hours...
...lonely back road toward Birmingham. His prisoners were Dan Pippen, 18, A. T. Harden, 16, and Elmore Clark, 28, indicted for the murder of a white girl. Sheriff Shamblin had heard that a mob was planning to break into the Tuscaloosa jail and lynch them next day. As he drove along, two carloads of armed men overtook him, demanded his prisoners. Sheriff Shamblin turned them over to the lynchers who disappeared into the night. Next day the bodies of two of the Negroes were found underneath a tree near Woodstock, handcuffed together, riddled with bullets. Day later, the third Negro...
...right, my boys!" the President suddenly exclaimed. "I'll resign." He dashed back to the Palace, drove next morning out of Havana to his estate. Through Havana spread the electrifying word: "Machado is through! Loot the Palace...
...basement, stopped the loading. One detective brought a policeman. Coolly Gladys of Marlborough appeared, told the movers to resume work. The policeman scratched his head. The detectives sent for a lawyer. The Duchess sent for hers. After a long conference between Duchess, lawyers, detectives and policeman, the vans drove off. Gladys of Marlborough walked out of her house, down the street to the Carlton Hotel...
...rich father, the late Henry Pomeroy Davison, avid angler and huntsman, returned from an African shooting trip with tales that made the boy's eyes pop. Some day, he vowed, he would go there too. The idea lay dormant but alive in his mind all the while he drove an ambulance in France in 1915, learned to fly, served as Lieutenant in U. S. N. Air Service, broke his back, made a plucky recovery, launched upon a career of public service aboard a $4,500,000 endowment from his father, became Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics under President...