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...Canton Daily News stopped his automobile in front of his house, to unload Mrs. Mellett and their friends, the Walter Vails, who were going to have a bite of midnight supper before getting along to bed. Mrs. Mellett led the Vails inside and made for the icebox. Publisher Mellett drove his car around to the garage...
Colonel Lawrence personally dynamited 70 Turkish bridges, and a score of Turkish railway trains. It was he who drove the Turks from Damascus with a Pan-Arab army, in the name of King Hussein of the Hejaz and Arabia, a few hours before Field Marshal Allenby's columns arrived to make the victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence whom Marshal Allenby had fetched by airplane that the Colonel and the Field Marshal might enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge drove 14 miles to attend the Sunday morning service at the First Presbyterian Church in Saranac Lake, N. Y. It was chilly, so the President wore a topcoat during the service, as did most of the 250 in the congregation...
...that furnished an accurate check on the calendar archaeologists have worked out for Mayan history. In Guatemala, Dr. Manuel Gamio of Mexico dug into highland strata, discovered archaic pottery and sculptures clearly pre-Mayan to support the theory that the Mayas' ancestors lived in the hills, whence earthquakes drove them to lower levels and firmer architecture...
...hour later, when her match with Mrs. O. J. Dewhurst, a second-rank English player, had been definitely postponed, she drove up in an open Rolls Royce, sent her apologies to the Queen. She had not felt like playing, she said. Then, amid lusty English boos, she drove off. Said the London Daily News: "By being indisposed, Mile Lenglen has created a bigger sensation than if Poincaré had publicly embraced Caillaux...