Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...High. This show is like a pair of renovated shoes?its polish is new, its cracks are old. It flashes through a series of pedal acrobatics-farandoles, shuffles, clogs, hornpipes, jigs. Many light-legged ladies agilely provide that atmosphere of deviltry which always overwhelms the very old and the very young at the sight of 20 or more female limbs rapidly manipulated to music. Occasionally William Howard, comedian of the monocle school, advances to the footlights in order to lure back those holders of seats who have begun to make determined, surreptitious exits on all fours up the centre aisle...
...irate bicyclist, bottle in hand, sped along a Cairo street. A hundred yards from a big house he stopped, waited foot on pedal...
...carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also one of those men on whose clear and fine skin soap and water seem to produce a sheen or a glow, such as the manufacturers of a boot polish assure the world is a pedal consequence of using their particular cream. He stands very upright and square-shouldered, with a rather commanding tilt to his head, and a look in his eyes, when he is opposed, which is quick with challenge...
...well known saying among local Democrats that, 'if Curley and Walsh want to carry Massachusetts, they will have to soft pedal this Davis stuff.' This does not of course mean that there is more than usual support for Coolidge. It means that with two reactionaries in the national field, all the liberal vote is swinging to La Follette. You and Senator Walsh seem aware of this and have done all in your power to 'soft pedal this Davis stuff.' You have stood from under all that you could. But it is necessary to satisfy the national campaign managers that...
Spencer's ride brought him back to the title he had held in 1917 and 1920. When he won in 1917, he was the first man to pedal past Frank Kramer, for 16 years unbeaten. After winning, Spencer oiled up his cycle for use against Peter Moeskops, giant Hollander, who won the World's title a fourth consecutive time last month at Paris. Moeskops had come to the U. S. The three races scheduled between Spencer and Moeskops will be in the nature of a challenge match. Spencer did not compete at Paris...