Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kick desperately. One of the kicks came in contact with a guy wire attached to a pole; the force of the kick made the pole fall down. A power wire strung on the pole fell on the mule, electrocuting it instantly; whereupon the mule fell over, landed on its rider, fractured the ribs of Peter Breckenridge...
...Baron is short, thickset, determined. Keen eyes peer from behind heavy round spectacles. His broad stubby mustache, his quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
...what the theorems, President Callahan, like the Bostonian trisectors, would not disclose last week. He too wanted copyright first. He was at Chippewa Falls, Wis. for the 75th anniversary celebration of Notre Dame Church, where once he preached. A friendly man, medium tall, 53, a horse back rider when he has time & opportunity, he was amused at the excitement over his statement. Said he: "Trisection has no special practical applications. . . . It is a matter of pure science or, rather, pure mathematics...
...also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary Sir Clive Wigram. Hostess No. 1 was famed Miss Ishbel MacDonald, charity worker. Hostess No. 2 was obscure Miss Sheila MacDonald, bicycle rider, basketballer. Lunch was the merriest Dr. Bruning has eaten in a long time. As a friend of his once said: "Heinrich is more than Spartan, he is monastic...
Married. F. Ogden Nash, light versifier (Hard Lines)* and Frances Rider Leonard, Baltimore Junior Leaguer; in Baltimore...