Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about three weeks ago Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley Jr., an ear, nose and throat specialist of high standing professionally and socially, was called to the telephone of his home in St. Louis. His wife heard him repeat the details of a hurry-call for his services; then Dr. Kelley drove away in his car. He did not return that night, nor the next day. . . . Soon St. Louis papers blared their favorite, almost their stereotyped headline: Kid-napped? It was St. Louis' 13th kidnap case in 16 months; and, as in the case of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME...
...last season: the first no-hit, no-run game pitched in the major leagues in nearly two years, beating the St. Louis Browns 9-0. Besides striking out eight men, allowing only three walks (three others got on base on errors by miserable Bill Hunnefield, short stop), Superman Ferrell drove a terrific home run into the center field bleachers in the fourth with a man on base, and brought in two more runs in the eighth with a double off the right field wall...
Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition, Speedster Oldfield raced only against time. That...
Paris put on an even greater demonstration for the fugitive King. Smiling wanly, he pushed his way through the crowd, drove to the swanky Hotel Meurice on the Rue de Rivoli where he had reserved an entire floor for his family and his followers at $600 per day. After Paris police warned that they could not protect him adequately in the city, the King moved with his entourage to Fontainebleau, 15 mi. distance, took quarters in the Hotel Savoy. Soon the $20,000 which he had brought with him was nearly exhausted by loans to his companions who, in their...
...Angeles, Frank D. Lovett, 61, drove along a boulevard until halted by a red traffic sign marked STOP. When the green GO sign turned, Lovett's car regained stationary. He was dead...