Word: droves
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...Gentle Joke." A few hours after the "incident," Premier Mussolini drove unconcerned to a Cabinet meeting. To his Ministers, still desperately uneasy lest his wound should prove serious, he said with a smile...
...heavy end of the school boy batting order started off in a business like fashion to open the first inning, when Barry singled with one man out, and Pierce drove him in with a hard double. The real scoring began in the Freshman half of the first session, however, when Miyakawa walked, was scarified to second and scored on Donahy's long drive to deep center which went for a three ply blow. Durkee followed the 1929 third sacker with a base hit, McGehee doubled, and Elkins and Prior singled to complete the scoring. The first-year ball tossers chased...
...some friends near Matteotti's house, in Rome. Suddenly he himself stepped out of his house. Visions of poor Bonservizi lying murdered swam before my eyes. Signaling my companions to help me, I sprang upon Matteotti, pushed him into the motor car and then myself took the wheel and drove rapidly away. I intended to take him to some quiet spot and question him concerning his share in the murder of Bonservizi...
Devils turned out to have depth and determination. It tells of a buried community in the cotton fields and how the Christian religion reached them all awry and drove the prettiest daughter of the village to delirium and death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic of a priest, who boils accurately through the play in the interpretation of John Cromwell. The play is brutal and unpleasant, but a sound and at times swiftly exciting piece of dramaturgy. How much of it is truth and how much of it is theatre, only a witness who knows...
...small boy going to the state university at Austin, where I lived, working at night in order that I might maintain myself and pay my way through that institution. I was walking down the street of Austin one day in the hot sun going to town and Mr. House drove by me in his one-horse buggy. He drove a one-horse buggy then; he drove it himself. No pretension; meek as he could be. And he saw a poor boy walking along in the hot sun. He knew nothing of me; he did not know my name...