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Word: droving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lulu Belle's Beau | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Then they held up Donald Moss, a young textile worker, for his car. When Moss was slow giving it up, Godwin shot him dead. Then they drove into the night, hid in a barn near Hickory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lulu Belle's Beau | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Tuffy was a 300-lb. lion owned by Joseph Dobish, Wildwood, N. J. boardwalk sideshow concessionaire. Last year Business-getter Dobish worked up an act called "The Motordrome Wall of Death." In this act, Dobish's wife drove a racing car at breakneck speed around a steep-sided wooden bowl, with Tuffy in a sidecar beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Terror in Wildwood | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...John, Queen Anne, Dean Swift. But it adds up to something less than Author Churchill intended. What he proves, chiefly, is that Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government to build fabulously costly Blenheim Palace as his reward for being a "good Englishman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Ancestor | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...past 13 years, Father Simon Borkowski, transferred to a seminary in Wisconsin (TIME, Sept. 5). Professing to be unable to get past the restraining pickets, Father Simon remained in his rectory. Then, one day last week, a party of 60 Catholics, some local and some from nearby towns, drove up to St. Barbara's to spring the trap. They man-handled the pickets out of the way, broke open the rectory's locked door, took possession of it and the church. Father Simon emerged, coatless, collarless. Once outside, he made no move to leave for his appointed post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Picketed Priest | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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