Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt cortege drove through Oklahoma City, out of the crowd toward the President's car ran a tattered figure. Firemen and National Guardsmen fell upon the man, pummeled him until the Secret Service identified him as harmless Woody Hockaday, 52, Kansas eccentric who two years ago, shouting "Feathers instead of bullets!" burst a bag of feathers in the office of Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). This time eccentric Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel...
...York Times drove home another point...
...olive brown troops of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Rightist Army drove on through the vineyards, the fruit and palm trees of Spain's Levant last week. Edging down the Mediterranean coast a few miles a day, they camped each night a little nearer Valencia. Capturing the once pleasant and prosperous resort of Nules and the little town of Villavieja, two miles inland, as the week ended the Rightist Galician troops commanded by General Miguel Aranda were within ten miles of Sagunto, 25 miles of Valencia...
...Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted Count Haugwitz-Reventlow as saying ; as to the murder victim, he was to be a "gentleman of London," (left unnamed by agreement of opposing counsel) who would first be challenged to a duel, than shot down "like...
...boom, were driven off by Chinese big guns at the Matang fort, and Chinese General Chang Fah-kwei, entrusted last week by the Generalissimo to defend Hankow against a Yangtze assault, breathed easier as the rain-swollen river itself came to his aid, spilled over and drove several Japanese landing parties back to the boats...