Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next-to-last sector of his White House fight the Democratic nominee picked New England, territory where he is admittedly weak. By motor from Albany he drove through a corner of Vermont into Massachusetts. At Williamstown, the college students turned out to stare, too mildly.* At the crest of the Mohawk Trail the Governor's party stopped for hot dogs and coffee. Citizens of Ayer were reminded that he once taught Sunday school there...
...Junior Association of Commerce undertook to salvage the Symphony. It relayed the S. O. S. ("Save Our Symphony") into schools, office-buildings, homes. Doctors, lawyers, merchants and insurance-men organized committees to ask for anything from $1 up. One A. K. Johnson, truck-farmer, drove 17 miles from Wayzata with his dollar. Bands paraded the loop daily...
Four crooks drove up to the Crookston, Minn. county jail one early morning last week, alighted from their delivery truck. Skillfully they slugged the night jailer, then the day jailer, then the day jailer's visiting friend, locked them up with tire tape on their eyes and mouths. Then the raiders looked about for loot. First they chose the things they liked best, several bottles of confiscated liquor. Next they chose the things which they needed most: 8500 from the safe, rifles, pistols, a machine-gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. Then they chose the things which would be most...
Molly's case was no different from thousands of others. Young, pretty, fairly intelligent, she went from factory to factory as the economic spirit drove her. Outside of work hours she lived. When Bill got a good job in Detroit and sent for her. Molly was pleased to go, pleased to be a married woman and not work in a factory any more. But boom times went quickly, jobs got scarce, finally nonexistent. Bill and Molly quarreled, patched it up. Optimistic Molly thought things would pick up soon, but Bill knew better. He thought & thought till he had decided...
...Hall's 178 windows. But candle-burning seemed dangerous and in 1827 Brown's President Francis Wayland put a ban upon it. No use for students and alumni to protest by burning a tar barrel on the campus; their president rushed out from his house and angrily drove them away...