Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charleston with Governor Johnston of South Carolina and Mayor Maybank beside him he drove through two miles of cheering crowds to the Navy dock. There lay the fast cruiser Indianapolis, her rails lined with blue jackets at attention. Accompanied only by his son James, his son's friend Edward" Gallagher, his Military and Naval aides and White House physician, the President climbed the gangplank and was piped aboard. He ascended to the bridge, waved good-by and promised, "I'm going to have a good time...
...middle of the fairways. Thomson lost the first hole. He caught up to even the match four times. At the 29th, Shute, one up, holed a 30-ft. putt for a winning birdie. The next four holes were halved with steady pars. On the 34th, Thomson, the famed driver, drove into the woods. Shute, famed for his iron shots, hit his second with a spoon. It stopped six feet from the hole, gave him an eagle 3 for match & title...
...summer of 1935 a Pontiac, Mich. factory mechanic named Hildred Gumarsol drove his trailer to Orchard Lake, removed the wheels, jacked it onto blocks, built a front porch, settled down for the summer. Several other trailers followed suit, paying the owner of the land the usual small parking fee. Most of them drove away at summer's end, but Gumarsol left his trailer there all winter, returned last summer to live in it again. Last month, angry owners of nearby real estate brought suit, charging that he was violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less...
Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...
...cuffing on his own, got mixed up with rebels in Genoa and, under the spell of a revolutionary temptress, ran arms for Naples until he learned that his captain had also been swayed by the same charmer and in the same fashion as himself. A captain at 21, he drove his Silver Racer on record runs to China, married a lovely, shrewd little French-Canadian girl, was not unfaithful to her except with native women, piled up a fortune of $35,000. During the Civil War the raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took...