Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though he would go mad. He was Stefan Todor, confessed "lover" and sole heir of 46-year-old Frau Kardos who was reputed wealthy. She had refused him any word of affection or consolation before she went to Death. Groaning and raving, he climbed at last into his sleigh, drove off to the mocking tune of jingle bells...
Shocked and grieved by the League of Nations' report that slavery exists in the black Republic of Liberia (TIME, Jan. 19), Negro editors throughout the U. S. last week drove their typewriters hard...
...John Davison Rockefeller was about to climb into his car after a game of golf at Ormond, Fla., Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci drove up to the golf club. They were introduced. Seized with a great gallantry, Mr. Rockefeller cried: "Bless you, bless you! I have enjoyed hearing you sing so many times!" From his car he extracted a bouquet of violets and sweet peas. "I found these at my plate this morning, and they made me think of your voice," said he. "And here is my picture with an appropriate sentiment. And if you don't mind, I would...
They estimated that the "Fascist scare" drove this sum out of Germany, and that it has not returned. Short-term foreign credits have been withdrawn. Germans themselves have sent their capital abroad...
Gabriel Sash was a stony acorn who planted himself in Kentucky soil in 1769. He was a hunter, and by way of being a desperate character. Living in a settlement drove him nigh crazy, and when he had stood the confinement of married life six months, he lit out for the woods and never came back. But he left behind him the beginnings of the Sash family. His only-son, James, was a mild-tempered man, who spent most of his life fighting the Indians, French, English. After the wars were over, he married a beautiful nun and settled down...