Word: driveway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their microphones. A watchman in Tokyo's chief fire station was ready with hand on the siren cord. At 6:15, just as the full force of the storm broke against the palace walls, lights suddenly appeared. A uniformed aid scurried from a side door across a sanded driveway to a temporary booth where reporters waited. Excited watchers whispered to each other that it had come. Another child was born to the Empress Nagako. Would it be a boy? Would there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house...
...left. When, last week, he got around to this dog, Mr. Fisher's caretaker, Frank Candee, protested. Caretaker Candee had become attached to the dog. Butler Bell paid no heed, raised his rifle, killed the creature. Caretaker Candee, irate, got out a knife. Butler Bell, standing in the driveway, raised his gun again and fired five times more, killed Caretaker Candee...
...incess Lilybet," who continued to stare, and entered the palace. For half an hour he remained closeted with the King, who was still in bed. When he emerged, Prime Minister Baldwin no longer, but the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., Princess Elizabeth was still being trundled in the driveway. Stanley Baldwin, M. P., drove away. The rest of the week was Labor...
...President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover emerge from the White House, step into an open White House motor, roll down the driveway, turning east on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...other consideration be of some weight? If placed in the midst of, and more or less obscured by other buildings which crowd around, it cannot have the inspiring effect nor convey the significance which is desirable. Whereas on the river driveway it might stand forth somewhat like the famous Stump of old Boston and it would impress on all, on students as well as the public, that Harvard cares and stands for spiritual values. Robert Treat Paine...