Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 4:30 a. m. they emerged to find rain pouring. They took a taxicab and drove around the block, dropped the Princess Therese de Caraman-Chimay at the Savoy-Plaza, then went on around to the Plaza, just across Fifth Avenue. As their cab paused, waiting an opportunity to turn in, a car drew up alongside. A man with a pistol leaped out, covered the taxi driver. Two others opened the door of the cab and leaned in. One made a grab at a necklace of square-cut emeralds and diamonds, the most obvious item among several hundred thousand...
...Rothschild castle in Austria, the Duke of Windsor cheerily engaged a staff of body servants from local applicants. Strangest post-Abdication event was when the Duke, hitherto notorious as Edward of Wales and as King Edward for his chronic absence from church, suddenly drove in on Sunday to the English Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern...
...regalia. The Generalissimo changed to civilian clothes and flew ahead to Nanking, followed two hours later by the Young Marshal in a cheap Chinese cotton-lined robe, veritable sackcloth & ashes. The Generalissimo was met by China's elderly Puppet President Lin Sen and 200,000 cheering Nankingese. The kidnapper drove quietly through back streets to settle down as the house guest of Ransomer T. V. Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China's greatest kidnapping of all time as smoothly as Britain disposed of the one and only voluntary abdication in her history...
...reactionary elements" he must be dropped. "If word goes out today that the Republican Party has learned no lesson," warned he, "it may be too late and our Party perishes before we can act to liberalize it in Congress. . . . Hamilton's fight on the Social Security Act drove millions out of the Party in the big industrial cities...
...Cousin Newbold to come on over. He dined in Mrs. Simpson's London house on the night of his arrival with her chaperon Aunt Bessie. Cousin Wallis was spending the weekend in the country with King Edward. After dinner, conscientious Aunt Bessie left Mr. Noyes in London and drove out to stay Monday night under the same roof as the King & Mrs. Simpson...