Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month racial feeling reached fever heat when a score of whites snatched Horace Ida off the streets of Honolulu, drove him out to Pali, soundly beat him after threatening to throw him to death off the cliff. Ida claimed but could not prove that U. S. sailors were responsible...
...Francisco from Butte, Mont, to be with Lieut. William J. French, on leave from Camp Devens, Mass. Early one morning Lieut. French and Mrs. McEnroe started to motor to Los Angeles. As they approached San Jose, the officer suddenly became violent, struck his companion over the head. Then he drove into a tree. Mrs. McEnroe was picked up by a truck. Police investigating the smash-up found swarthy, curly-headed Lieut. French dead with a bullet through his brain, apparently by his own hand. Then Mrs. McEnroe, told a strange story. She said the officer was one-eighth Negro...
...calibre bullet which struck the boy's heart was in the main artery of his left leg. It had traveled there, surmised surgeons, by piercing the heart and entering the left auricle. Contraction of the heart pushed the small lead pellet into the left ventricle, whence further pulsation drove it into the aorta, main feeder of the arterial system...
...Tarrytown, N. Y., William R. Laudy drove up to the railroad station in a burning automobile just as his train for New York was leaving. Commuter Laudy caught his train, left his automobile in flames...
...breaking point, when everybody's suspicions were mutual, Lida Grant, worried lest murder materialize, set fire to Clayton's coal-sheds. After the bonfire Glen Hazard's native sons drove them both out of town. Thelma returned to the Tennessee mountain peace with a sorrow for the city-man in her heart, but only Chad and Vesper on her hands...