Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base on balls, and was forced out at second by Schwede. Johns followed drawing another pass and pushing Schwede to second. Hoye's perfect bunt the bases, but Schwede was out attempting to score as Grondabl reached first on a selder's choice. Lupien's snappy double to left drove in Johns and Hoye for two talks. Other runs were scored in the fifth and eighth frames...
...squad of customs agents waited one evening last week outside of River House, swank apartment building on Manhattan's east side, until a limousine drove up and deposited a stately, well-dressed dowager: Mrs. James C. Ayer, Colonial Dame and D. A. R., widow of a distinguished doctor who inherited millions of the American Woolen Co. fortune. The customs men followed her up to the Ayer penthouse, there spent three hours going through her personal effects while Mrs. Ayer lay prostrate on a couch. An informer whom they would call only "Mary Doe" had told the Federal men where...
After dark, a parade of 75 automobiles, their license plates shrouded, drove through the Negro district. In the cars rode white-hooded figures, distributing threats lettered in red, twirling a suggestive hangman's noose. At 25 street corners the Ku-Kluxers paused to plant and ignite fiery crosses. From a pole they hung a black effigy labeled: "This nigger voted...
...subjects, would probably have been the envy of that ambitious little monarch Henry VIII. The luckless, unpopular Stuarts would have grown green with jealousy had they been able to witness the crowds which last week cheered as King George and his consort, Queen Elizabeth, drove in state from London's stately Buckingham Palace to drab Waterloo Station, there to catch a special boat train for Portsmouth. Almost any of Britain's past crowned heads would have admired the scene at Portsmouth...
Lupien and Gene Lovett, Sophomore left fielder, were the big guns in the home team's offense. Lupien opened the last half of the second with a smash to deep left, which snappy relaying held to two bases. Lovett then drove a slow ball over second into centerfield, scoring Lupien; Tully singled...