Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elevators, went down into darkness. Tense minutes passed before they brought up more than 100 frightened, lucky men who had been near enough the shaft to race away from gaseous Death. Soon the fatal "black damp,"* cause and aftermath of most coalmine explosions, rushed up into the wooden shed, drove rescuers back gasping. They were frantic, unorganized. The company's president, William Ewing Tytus, its vice president, P. A. Coen and the mine's superintendent, Walter Hayden, were all down there, a mile and a half along the rocky channels from the shaft-entrance, where they had gone...
...winner of the West for Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover (who rewarded him with the portfolio of War), used to talk about votes in terms of bullfrogs. On the eve of the 1928 election he said he felt like the man who loaded his wagon with live bullfrogs and drove off to stock up his pond. From the noise in the wagon, the man was sure all the bullfrogs were still there all the way. But when he got to the pond, he found that all but two specially noisy frogs had jumped out. Good Jim Good's good moral...
...first time since he nearly died of pneumonia two years ago, George V last week opened Parliament. Bareheaded the venerable monarch drove with Queen Mary from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords, arrived snuffling. Repeatedly during the majestic procedure His Majesty cleared his throat as though it tickled. Once he broke a sentence in the middle to cough...
Coached by his father, Licensed Mihai drove a small but "real" gasoline propelled automobile round and round the Royal Park last week, acquired such proficiency that his appearance on the public streets was reported "imminent...
...after another of her brothers and sisters who wanted to break away to a life of their own. First it was Paget, whose girl was not only penniless but not good enough. Matt considered, for a Welland. Then it was Tom, who twice got away but whose gutlessness drove him back finally to stay. Jenny ran off one rainy night to be married, but her conscience drew her home and into the wreck that left her a spiteful cripple. The ghost of Sophie's lover, forbidden her because he was an agnostic, haunted her at last into suicide. Ruth...