Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history, a President motored from the White House to his office. Reason: Washington's 12-in. snowfall last week. Rather than slog through the drifts from the White House to his office in the State, War & Navy building, just across the side street, President Hoover entered his limousine, drove circuitously around the block...
Thirty minutes later as he drove down Capitol Hill he was feeling very much better because he had not only talked transfer effectively but, more important, had successfully withstood the hectoring of Wets who sought to evoke his personal opinion on Prohibition...
Story. Sadko, a singer who played on the gousla (ancient Russian handharp), was summoned to entertain banqueting merchants. Instead of praising them, his singing boasted of what he would do with their opportunities, so that they drove him into the streets. Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea. Instantly she loved Sadko for his song, told him that if he cast his net into the waters he would draw forth three golden fishes which would spell wealth, happiness. Sadko rushed home, cast aside his doting wife, proceeded...
...problem of finding an adequate stroke oar which drove Coach Brown nearly to desperation last year is felt quite as keenly now, though still more candidates appear with several of the qualifications of a pacesetter. Besides J.E. Lawrence '31, T.N. Perkins, Jr. '31, Swaim, and Watts, who are considered among the most likely possibilities for the post, three others loom as potential candidates. They are A.H. Parker '32 of last year's Freshmen, R.W. Pearson '31, who stroked both the class champions and the combination, and Sturges...
...does not smoke or chew. When angered, he swears vigorously. His flashy temper quickly subsides. Once he taught Sunday school in Algona. A Congregationalist, he used to attend the same church as President Coolidge until the crowds drove him away...