Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concentrating their forces last week in the Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection...
...largest prison in the world, the Ward Road jail, capacity 8,000, stands on the edge of the Japanese part of the International Settlement under crossfire from both sides for over a week. Shells crashed right into the building last week, killed eight prisoners in the cells, wounded 70, drove several others insane. Volunteers from the International Settlement last week finally arranged for the prisoners to be evacuated in busses to the outskirts of the Chinese city. A morning's load of 500, guarded by British and U.S. armored cars got safely through. The rest, 6,500 were held...
Sued. Professional Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange, one-time "Galloping Ghost" of the University of Illinois: for $25,000; by one Mrs. May Battaglia, who claimed she was permanently injured when Footballer Grange drove through a red light, struck her car; in Chicago...
...entirely too expensive for him to own. To that class which can afford the car, the name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought...
Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...