Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop received a break in the third period when a Deacon center went heavenwards, scaling over McClure's head for the goal. Winthrop recovered on the 20, but could not dent the Deacon line. Pete Wentworth, Kirkland left and, broke up the interferers, while Thompson drove in to grab the runner on the final running play...
...very rapidly, smokes constantly, is disturbed by a facial tic which stayed with him after illness in China. Gloomily handsome, mildly sardonic, he enjoys the companionship of pretty women. Born in Paris on November 3, 1901, of well-to-do parents, he went to five schools as War drove his family in and out of the city, graduated from the famed Lycée Condorcet, which schooled Proust, then studied Sanskrit at the Paris School of Oriental Languages. He had published a thin book of prose poems, married Clara Goldschmidt, the daughter of a well-to-do German Jewish family...
Into the tangled web of international politics there burst yesterday a new factor of the utmost importance, namely the danger of war with the planet Mars. Completely dwarfing the petty Czechoslovakian quibble, this new terror drove deep into the panic-stricken hearts of Americans, uncovering in its violence a fundamental fact which no thinking person can afford to ignore: namely, America is a part of the universe...
...Congress: Dick Kleberg is three distinct things. He is a Personality-a leathery, lean-hipped, aloof, still faintly fabulous character who since he first drove up to the Wardman Park Hotel in one of the King Ranch's stripped hunting Fords, has spent his free time with his family, playing golf (in the low 70s), and avoiding newspapermen. He is a conscientious worker for himself and other farmers, who listens patiently to Congressional oratory, does his bit against oleomargarine and other bug bears of the range, never misses a meeting of his sole committee, Agriculture. Finally...
...United States last week enjoyed himself in the role of country squire at Hyde Park. He gave out one formal statement, expressing his hopes that the new Wages & Hours law would work, and that employers doing intrastate business would comply with its spirit. For the rest he drove in his car through the woodland roads of his estate, watching his trees grow, and enjoyed the squirely duty of receiving visitors. No ordinary squire, he naturally had callers of no ordinary distinction...