Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buch '34, and the effective defense afforded by the shovel of Adolph, veteran janitor, who was subsequently imprisoned in the boiler room, the visitors succeeded in driving Buch out of the building and into the inner sanctuary of the Catholic church. They immediately removed Boyd from the premises, and drove away to Wellesley Hills...
...very pleasing devil was running about and his domain seemed to be peopled with most agreeable dancers and singers. The most extravagantly successful act of the show was a prison orchestration by Bruce Johnson's Washboard Serenaders. The positively incredible way this group could make music go mad almost drove the audience into a frenzy. Your reviewer distinctly counted three women who actually jumped at least six inches out of their seats during one of the rendition. Also peppy was Sandy and his band. While scientific tests may show that colored children have no more rhythm than their white school...
When Kernel Pasha drove the illicit manufacturers out of Turkey some of them began secret operations in Bulgaria. At first the Bulgarian police, inexperienced in such things, were none too quick in detecting and suppressing the traffic. Recently, however, the Bulgarian authorities have proved themselves alert and effective in suppressing the traffic, as is indicated by the bulletin issued by the U. S. Department of State, issued Feb. 23, 1933 which says in part: "The prompt action of the Bulgarian authorities in this matter, evidence as it is of their desire to cooperate in the international effort to suppress...
...often has a British Ambassador had to take such backtalk. Next day the Ovey hat went back on the Ovey head and with knotted brow Sir Esmond, hastily summoned to London, drove to the railway station. Quickly the young men in his Embassy announced that this was not an official recall; unofficially they let it be known that it was unlikely Sir Esmond would return to Moscow. In the smoky station was gathered the entire foreign diplomatic corps (but not Commissar Litvinov or his British wife, Ivy Low) to bid Sir Esmond and his wife Godspeed. As the train pulled...
...Kansas City last week the cock robin which has been attacking its own reflection in a window pane was still at it (TIME, March 27). Its mate was supplying it regularly with fat worms, big bugs. Once it fell upon a blue jay which appeared in the yard, drove it away. Apparently wearied by this diversion the cock robin retreated for a few hours to a telephone wire. As the 17th day passed its attacks grew less & less vicious...