Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country. The French made the original mistake in bringing prisoners of war to work the land. These were no black slaves, but the sons of native kings and warriors who were accustomed to hold slaves themselves. France discovered this when the ragged troops of Toussaint L'Ouverture drove the army of the great Napoleon to the sea, and later repulsed the forces that England sent against them. In the Haitians is the fierce, arrogant spirit of ancestors used to independence and conquest...
Last week Farmer Gus Sumnick had important company for mid-day dinner at his 1.200-acre place near Waterloo. Neb. Twenty-eight miles out from Omaha drove no less a person than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, trailed by a hundred automobiles full of family & friends. Several thousand country folk flocked to the up-to-date Sumnick farm for a look at the Democratic nominee for President...
Senator Hofstadter was the Republican chairman of the same investigating committee which, with the aid of Samuel Seabury, drove James John ("Jimmy") Walker out of the Mayor's office. The Tammany braves rocked with laughter. But the nomination was no joke. Boss Curry nodded his white little head and Tammany stamped its approval upon the man who had caused it its severest recent anguish...
...homerun into the temporary bleachers beyond the right field fence, scoring three runs. In the third, Gehrig had hit his second homerun of the series for the Yankees' fourth run. Meanwhile the Cubs had caught up, with a run in the first, two in the third when Kiki Cuyler drove a homerun into the right field bleachers, another in the fourth when Jurges scored on Lazzeri's fumble. Now, with the score tied. Babe Ruth, whom
Even an unexacting reader will notice unusually prosy bits in Rip Tide, such as . . . Barry, hailed to the court, Tried some tennis. A couple drove...