Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first "son of the manse" (minister's son) ever to get the appointment. Lord High Commissioner Buchan stayed at Holyrood Palace, where the town officers of Edinburgh ceremoniously gave him keys to the city (which by custom he handed back at once). Day the Assembly opened, he drove first to St. Giles's Cathedral and then to Assembly Hall, with his wife, purse-bearer, aides-de-camp, ladies-in-waiting and cavalry escort. Cannon thundered a royal salute. The Lord High Commissioner read a letter of commendation from the King. Thereafter he visited the Assembly daily, spent some...
...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
...Southern California's lean, blond, curly-headed Charley Parsons-son of Coach Dean Cromwell's college and teammate Charles B. Parsons-needed was a fifth place in the six-man race. The runners crouched at the start. The field spread going away from the mark and drove into the straightaway with Howard Jones of Penn ahead and Robert Kane of Cornell at his elbow. They were placed in the same order at the finish, with Parsons close behind for the third place that gave U. S. C. two more points than it needed for the championship...
...Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
Hans Pinneberg, 23, was a smalltown bookkeeper, a decent but rather timid sort. Cupid drove an arrow straight through Hans's heart when he and pretty young Bunny met on a temporarily deserted beach. Before they even knew each other's names they were married in every sense but the legal. Then a baby threatened, so they got married legally. Pinneberg lost his job, because his boss had wanted him for a son-in-law; there was nothing more for him in that town. His mother, who was no better than she should have been, wrote that...