Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately Premier Briand had no head for finance. The collapse of the franc drove him back to his favorite post of Foreign Minister. In came great Premier Raymond Poincaré to save the franc, and incidentally to blight the careers of several Briand satellites. Ousted Pierre Laval contrived to get himself elected a Senator from the Department of the Seine (which he has since represented). He dropped back for several years into obscurity as a quiet Independent. Still close to Old Brer Briand, he also made himself close to Young André Tardieu...
...Manhattan, Adolph Kanter, 44, drove his car through the railing and off a 75-ft. viaduct, found that instead of being killed he had suffered only a black eye, a few bruises. More proud than thankful, Adolph Kanter said he had saved himself by clinging to the cushion of his car, wrote an ode about his feat: Here I am, the miracle man, The one that flies in a Chrysler car; Lindy hopped over the ocean, Made a perfect landing in France; So did I make a perfect landing Over a Viaduct fence. I dropped seventy-five feet with...
...that it found John Thomas ("Legs") Diamond not guilty on a kidnapping charge. Nobody was surprised. Arrested 27 times on charges ranging from homicide to "suspicious character," the shifty-eyed, pasty-faced, bony racketeer had been convicted only thrice in his 36 years. Again free, "Legs" kissed his wife, drove across the Hudson to Albany to get drunk...
...hangers-on lolled over a speakeasy table. "Legs" got up, lurched toward the door. "Gotta go see some of my newspaper pals," he said. "Stick around." Outside he told his taxi man: "Gotta see Marion. Gotta tell her how I got acquitted again." The taxi man drove him to a rooming house where lived his ex-chorus girl mistress Marion Roberts (Strasmick). At 4:30 a. m. the taxi man drove Diamond on to his own cheap lodging house, the best New York's most publicized gangster could then afford. His landlady heard him climb the stairs, slam...
...audience with Mussolini, was photographed shaking hands with Il Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton took him racing on the Shamrock V and he watched King George's Britannia lose to them by a drifting length. Lloyd George drove him 45 miles to catch a train, in one hour flat...