Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night before, the royal family boarded their private railway coaches, bound for the traditional six-weeks holiday at beautiful Scottish Balmoral Castle. At Aberdeen, kilted King George, his Scottish Queen, and their two little princesses, decked in royal Stuart tartan, received a rousing welcome from thousands of sturdy Aberdonians, drove fifty miles along the Dee River to Balmoral Castle...
When the Fascist ax & rods drove the Lion of Judah from his Ethiopian home, Benito Mussolini was faced with grueling transport problems. Only means of carrying food, garrison troops and colonists from the Red Sea coast to Ethiopia's capital was by the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railroad, 494 mi. of rough, single-track, narrow-gauge roadbed over which crawled rattling, second-hand rolling stock to a terminus in French territory...
...began his The House of the Seven Gables. Nothing very important had since happened at sedate Tanglewood until last week. From the nearby Berkshire Hunt and Country Club, where he and his wife had been put up in the best suite, Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony drove over to Tanglewood, noted with approval that a tan tent, 280 ft. by 120 ft. and 60 ft. high at its peak, had been raised on the property. Dr. Koussevitzky entered the tent, commanded that two sticks be clicked together before the big plywood orchestra shell. Listening judiciously from the rear...
Next day, although the heat of Cairo continued almost unbearable, King Farouk drove through the poorest quarters of his capital, again wildly cheered, to pray at the Mosque in which his father lies buried. On the third sizzling day His Majesty's Government set the program forward several hours, so that Field Marshal King Farouk reviewed the Egyptian Army in the cooler hours just after dawn. Every Egyptian town of importance had been equipped by the Government in recent weeks with a radio loudspeaker in the public square and the whole kingdom could listen for the first time...
...roared off and stopped at Mars Turner's filling station at the edge of town. Pete Traxler was sitting in the driver's seat with two revolvers and Tindol was in back with two revolvers and a 30-30 Winchester. Just then Frank Dorris the town marshal drove by and Nell said, "There's the Law. You'd better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner had a bad moment. But Marshal Dorris looked the other way and drove straight to Chickasha to get help. To Mars Turner's surprise, they...