Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover & friends drove out to the Rapidan camp for two days. He pulled on hip boots at once, went fishing by himself, caught twelve trout. One was 14 in. long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
...bills. I mean by big bills the old-style large-size ones that might have been in hiding. If the people who quit business to go into gambling a few years ago would go back to work, they could sell all they produce." Mr. & Mrs. Ford drove off in a Lincoln (the White House impartially uses Cadillacs, Pierce-Arrows, Lincolns-three of each) to "enjoy the flowers" in Virginia...
...brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25, lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The Museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...permits parents to send their children to any schools they wish, provided the teaching is as good as that in the public schools. Last week the Vineland School Board invited Mrs. Smart to appear before it for examination as to her fitness to teach. Truant Officer Jock Steineder drove out to the Harmony Truth Centre to bring Mrs. Smart to the meeting. But he drove back without her. It was "inconvenient" for her to come, said Citizen Smart gaily. The Board then served five-day notice on the Smarts, by which they must show their competence or be liable...
...placidly that his maternal grandmother, who smoked a pipe, prophesied that he would die on the gallows. She had her reasons. Once, to compel his mother's attention, he snatched a kitchen knife from her by the blade so violently that he still bears the scar. "A similar perversity drove me to grasp potted plants by their stems and to dash them to the floor...