Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soggy fields and a cold drizzle drove the gridsters into the cage yesterday afternoon for their first post-vacation practice. Due to cramped quarters, the squad was divided into five teams and run through signal drill for the entire session...
...will look at the organization in the State of Illinois and the men who are leading the organization, you will recollect every face of those who drove them out of the Republican Party, and if they are sitting in the front row at the Cleveland convention and dominate the platform and name the candidate, that ten million never will come back and other millions will go with them...
...residence at Buckingham Palace. This procedure Edward VIII, who has his apartments in a wing of St. James's Palace and uses Buckingham Palace merely as an office, varied in two precedent-shattering respects. He held his "Court of St. James" levee in Buckingham Palace, and he drove thither not by State Coach but for the first time in British history on such an occasion in a motor car, one of his father's high, maroon Daimlers...
...slightly perturbed one day when his physician teed his ball a full foot in front of the markers. With painstaking care. Rockefeller teed his own ball exactly on a line with the red marker, dryly observed: "I always play the full course, Doctor." Equally hateful of waste, he once drove a brand new ball into the rough, hunted it for ten minutes, finally asked his caddy what his cronies would do in a similar situation. The caddy retorted that they would look for a minute, then drop a new ball. "Huh!" snorted Golfer Rockefeller. "They must have barrels of money...
Though telephones held out, power failure soon drove all three Pittsburgh papers out of town. To the Washington, Pa. Observer & Reporter scurried the Scripps-Howard Press, ran off 125,000 copies of an eight-page flood extra. Paul Block's Post-Gazette borrowed the office of the Newcastle News, got out enough papers for 70,000 of its 204,139 readers, then slogged on to the larger plant of the Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator. The Sun-Telegraph hurried a crew 30 miles to publish on the presses of the Greensburg Tribune & Review...