Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chauffeur to stop, got out, went back along the road, found that the White House machine in which his Secretary Lawrence Richey and other friends were riding had been smashed by an automobile driven by a Mrs. Carolyn Lone Beach of Brooklyn, N. Y. None was hurt. The President drove...
...other Alabamans went by train to Emelle to help find Jacob, Tom and Oliver. On their hunt they shot dead in a small railway station at Narkeeta an unidentified Negro who refused to be searched and fired at them. They also shot and killed Mrs. Jessie Dill whose husband drove hastily past them after he had been told to halt...
...sanctuary for many a strange confession. But certain it is that Editor Brown never returned the confidence by pointing to his own name (formerly hyphenated Inness-Brown) in New York's Social Register. A graduate and medalist of University of Virginia where he edited the student paper, he drove an ambulance in France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under...
...shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen with utterly ruined grey toppers drove sadly up to London in waterlogged sport cars, their womenfolk clustered on sodden back seats with tired, disgusted, hair-streaked faces...
During this time the plane did not retreat from the twister but impudently dodged about it. Trusting to powerful motors which drove them along at 127 m. p. h. the crew took photographs, copious notes...