Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's start, after 54 days of fighting, the estimated 200,000 Chinese troops defending Shanghai held every ad vantage, drove Japanese troops back at several points, at one time actually forced a fleet of eight Japanese transports to seek safety farther down the river. Day after day, Japan's long-heralded Big Push was postponed, finally got under way at week's end, with small success. Although the Japanese struck on a wide front, apparently with all the force they could muster by air, from the water and on land, the Chinese held firm, lost...
...some visiting Germans drove to the nearby Black Forest, others gazed at Stuttgart's modernistic buildings, Bishop Theophil Würm-one of the Lutheran signers of a declaration drafted last week against Nazi religious aims-delivered a fighting sermon to his usual Sunday congregation in the Württemberg capital...
...happy Bohemians now extant, Waldo Peirce drove an ambulance in France in 1915. traveled in Spain with Ernest Hemingway before The Sun Also Rises, lived and roistered in Madrid, Paris, Tunis. Like most artists who came out of the War with minds touched by mortality and repelled by stuffiness, he stayed in Europe until Depression called him home. His painting first went strongly Zuloaga, then Goya, then strongly Matisse, remains humorous and unruly. In the past few years his favorite subjects have been his twins, Michael and Chamberlain, and their more recent sister, Gabby. He once whiled away a short...
Practically no one had ever heard of dumpy, self-possessed Johnny Goodman 1n 1929 when he calmly drove-up to the Pebble Beach course in California in a wheezing jalopy, stolidly qualified for the U. S. Amateur. Everyone had heard of him after the first day of match play because he put out the great Bobby Jones in the first round. Nowadays Goodman sells much more insurance, travels in better cars, wears better clothes. He was third-best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again this year...
...Philadelphia, Claude Alexander drove his friend Charles Lee to the hospital for an appendectomy. As Mr. Alexander was departing, he was doubled up by a sharp pain in his side. Doctors rushed him to an operating room and removed his appendix...