Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood and knew she had been wounded. We passed three passenger busses but they took no notice of our plight, preferring to get out of range of the shots. During all this time I urged my chauffeur with cries of 'Quicker, Gjanni!' Despite his wounds he drove like mad and got us to the hospital...
...Fairfield, Conn. John Vargo, who had sworn off tobacco for 38 years, accepted a cigaret from a friend, smoked it while he drove home. The smoke got in his eyes. He lost control of the automobile, ran off the road, was taken to the hospital with three broken ribs, a bruised head...
...finest publicity the old Palmer House ever had was provided by Potter Palmer's wife. From her great castellated mansion on Lake Shore Drive she drove Chicago society for 40 years. There she entertained Edward of Wales for whose favor as Edward VII of Britain she later waged mighty social campaigns in London. Potter Palmer took little part in his beauteous wife's gyrations, often slipped away from levees to spend an evening with his cronies. His mile of State Street real estate grew vastly more important than the hotel. The present Palmer House, a leading commercial hotel...
...other group fell on a car belonging to one M. J. Wood of Kansas City (Kans.), who was taking his wife, daughter and the daughter's girl friend to decorate his grandfather's grave. The convicts pushed Mr. Wood out, put on the women's coats, drove to a wooded spot near Pleasanton, Kans. They behaved good-naturedly when Louise Wood, 17, declared: "You can shoot me if you want to, but I'll not sit on your lap." That evening the women and the convicts appeared at a farmer's house...
...they spied the black, red and gold Heimwehr (Austrian Fascists) pennant. Students surrounded the car, jumped on the running board, ripped off the pennant. Up rose Princess Löwenstein, pulled a revolver from her purse and began firing at random into the crowd. The students fled, the Prince drove...