Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as though wizened little St. Gandhi had never existed, India's Viceroy, his long legs encased in white kerseymere knee breeches, drove smiling through the streets of New Delhi to open the eleventh annual session of the Chamber of Princes. Bearded lancers with gay fluttering pennons trotted in front of his State carriage. A bodyguard perched behind holding a huge umbrella over the viceregal head...
...That's just exactly what Col. Lindbergh would tell him!'' Preacher Dobson-Peacock exploded. "That man Shootskoff, or whatever his name is, has tried to hinder us from the outset. He and his men attempted to prevent us from seeing Col. Lindbergh when we drove to Hopewell and his men trailed us all the way back to Norfolk. Since then we feel that we have been under constant surveillance. In order to carry on negotiations with the kidnappers we have been forced to dodge and double on our trails like common criminals...
...Detroit police hurried to their aid with tear gas bombs and high pressure hoses. On to the factory gate pressed the mob. There it was met by two volleys of high-aimed pistol fire, forced back. As the crowd reformed, Ford's Service Chief Harry H. Bennett drove into its midst. In an instant his car was toppled over. Someone cried: "Save him!" The police fired point blank into the crowd. Twenty men fell, the rest scattered. Fifty lay injured on the skirmish field, including Bennett and many policemen. Four rioters were dead...
...Trade Commissioner he ought not to use his fists. Mr. Robison got out his glasses again, put them on, entered his car, let in his clutch. Pantherlike, one of the armbanded Japanese sprang upon the running board, hit Mr. Robison a smashing blow in the face as he drove away amid Japanese guffaws...
...composer, novelist, "March King of America"; of heart disease; in Reading, Pa. Born in Washington, D. C. of a Bavarian mother and a Portuguese father, he was a precocious instrumentalist. At 25 he became the leader of the U. S. Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus and The Dwellers in the Western World...