Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinderella Warner tripped gaily out of Harvard to pose for the Daily Record, a little paper in Boston, and to write of her escapades and escapes in the Harvard Union. Since then the subway rider wearily rocketing his way homeward, has been delighted by the slightly bovine features and Pepsodent smile of Little Kay peeping coyly at him from some twelve pictures. For the literate portion of their customers the Record has provided Kay's own simple story told in her own simple way; and it is hard to see how even the most hardened can help but feel...
...After being flogged 32 times at Eton, the present Lord Lonsdale ran away from his family, made his living in Switzerland for 18 months as an acrobat and circus rider. He is rated the best judge of horseflesh in Britain's peerage and the second best judge of cigars. Aged 77, he claims to have started the Klondike gold rush on an early visit to the U. S., gravely insists that he once saw a school of authentic mermaids...
Tied for first place, each team had gained the same number of laps over the rest of the pack. William John ("Torchy'') Peden, 27, a rangy Canadian with a flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull...
Leverett: Rawson, r.e.; Oppenheim, r.t.; Rider, r.g.; Levan, c.; Hartman, l.g.; Amory, l.t.; Dawes, l.e.; Tyng, q.; Stevens, r.h.; Beardsley, l.h.b.; Wallace...
...potent mounts as Bell Lee Rose, Roger Selby's stallion King Genius, American Dream, Lady of Lexington. Time and again the judges had them go through their tricks of changing nimbly from walk to running walk to rack to trot to canter at the slightest touch of the rider's finger on the rein. Sweetheart on Parade stepped flawlessly, again took the blue ribbon-the last she will ever win under saddle. Henceforth Mrs. Roth will use her in harness...