Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blackton, driving a truck, was stopped by officers as he approached a courthouse at which the permits are supplied, and was notified that such a permit was necessary and requested to obtain same. Without hesitation and in plain view of the officers who had notified him, Mr. Blackton drove his truck past the courthouse and on out of town. The officers followed, arrested him as they should have, and brought him back to be fined. To show further that Mr. Blackton knew well in advance what the requirements were, HE HAD ON HIS PERSON AT THE TIME OF HIS NOTIFICATION...
...baseball the Deacons were also successful against Yale, the undefeated nine pounding out a 6-5 win over Jonathan Edwards College at New Haven Saturday. Carr drove in three runs as Kessler led the batting with three hits...
...errors accounted for the Crimson's eight tallies in the second frame, which gave the Varsity the determining lead over the Huskies. In the fourth the Mitchellmen added three more scores on an equal number of hits, while the final tally came in the fifth when Bilodeau's bingle drove in Dick Grondahl...
Lest her high Indian caste be profaned by any male eyes glimpsing her while she went shopping in London, the Maharani of Jaipur, on hand for the Coronation, emerged from her hotel at 6 a.m., drove off in an automobile with frosted windows for a quick tour of London stores whose female clerks had been specially ordered to appear early...
Prime political event of last week was the beginning of a fishing trip. One morning Franklin Roosevelt, 27 hours out of Washington, detrained at Biloxi, Miss, accompanied by his trusty supporter, Senator Pat ("The Fox") Harrison. With Governor Hugh White of Mississippi they drove to Jefferson Davis' onetime estate (now a home for Confederate veterans) and on to Gulfport, home of Senator Harrison. There the President was joined by his son Elliott and Governor Richard Webster Leche (pronounced lesh) of Louisiana and entrained, beginning the significant part of his journey...