Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Negro Johnson in tow the mob stomped out, drove off toward Tumbleton in 25 automobiles. After day broke City Editor Joseph David ("Red") Brown of the Dothan Eagle received a telephone tip that Negro Johnson's body could be found near the Tumbleton farm home of Rupert Bond in which the alleged attack had taken place. Editor Brown grabbed his camera and dashed off for Tumbleton. There on the brink of a sparsely wooded ravine, 50 yd. from Farmer Bond's house, he found the bullet-riddled body of Negro Johnson. Tight-lipped farmers, who seemed...
...with a total area today of perhaps 80,000 sq. mi. Last week this Red State was spectacularly absorbing many soldiers once commanded by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, recently kidnapper of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.) and war lord of Manchuria until the Japanese drove him out (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Worse still, last week the deserters of the Young Marshal's standard were killing their officers, as many of these were not so eager as their...
...beauty. That was enough for Pushkin. After a long and arduous courtship, he married her. Natalya made him a decorative and submissive wife, presented him with several children. But she never returned his love, and though apparently she was technically faithful, her flirtatiousness nearly drove Pushkin wild. On her side, Natalya never understood or cared for Pushkin's poetry, was hurt and annoyed by his fits of literary hibernation. Pushkin himself hastened the inevitable end. He challenged a young Frenchman, Baron d'Anthés, who had been making violent love to Natalya, but was robbed...
Easily the outstanding man on the ice with his two goals and an assist, Ralph Pope was the spark which drove the newly formed third line to its brilliant display of hockey. Captain George Ford, although he did not figure in the scoring, was again ragging the puck all over the ice and keeping the vaunted Queens attack from getting started...
...being a courageous man the Soviet economist persisted that morning in his habit of taking a brisk constitutional in the Bois de Boulogne. Several witnesses last week heard and saw what happened. A man with a pistol coolly fired three shots at close range, next grappled Dmitri Navachine, drove home four blows with a long thin knife, and nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering in a dark puddle...