Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the third period Bill sheehan on a single reverse drove over his own left tackle and into the open, speeding 55 yards unimpeded for a touchdown...
...this particular prize, two publishers began to prepare a year ago. Harcourt printed a revised edition of its best seventh-grade history. Row, Peterson entered the lists with Building Our Nation. For twelve months Harcourt's young agent, P. K. Burney, a former high-school principal, drove furiously night and day over Texas' vast distances, covered 50,000 miles, wore out one car and bought another. Like the two agents of Row, Peterson, Paul Baker and Raymond Franklin, Agent Burney visited teachers, principals, superintendents and members of the State board to win friends for himself and his book...
...Metropolitan Opera Soprano Queena Mario for speeding, driving over a white line, passing another auto on a curve. Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...
...Morristown, N. J., Mrs. Walter E. Wilke drove her car into a tree. She backed off, drove on. A policeman noticed the car weaving, leaped on the running board, pulled the emergency brake, hospitalized Mrs. Wilke who complained of a pain in her neck. Shortly, Mrs. Wilke died of her broken neck...
...order to gain valuable first-hand experience with highway problems, the men drove down in cars over some of the more important eastern routes. Once established at Hotel George Washington in New York, they will make short trips of inspection to parkway developments in Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey...