Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NIGHT RIDER-Robert Penn Warren-Houghton Mifflin...
This melodramatic, smoldering story is the background of Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider. Nobody agrees about the real Tobacco War. But there is no ambiguity in Warren's vivid account of it. Vigorous, lyrical, balanced, it portrays the actors of that little-known ruckus...
...boys on bicycles meandered along a Dorsetshire lane. Suddenly over a dip in the road roared a motorbike, doing about 55. To avoid the boys its rider swerved violently, skidded, lost control, catapulted over the handlebars. Six days later, without regaining consciousness, he died. So finished, at 46, the man known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who has as bumpy a reputation as a pilot as the former Prince of Wales had as a rider, flew his wife and some friends from Harrisburg to Christmas dinner in Philadelphia. Landing, he upset the plane, hurled passengers against the windshield, luckily killed nobody...
...usually owns two or three of varying weights), whips, boots, breeches and rubber reducing suit-if he has to keep his weight down. Next to losing their bank rolls, jockeys dread gaining weight. Longden and Adams are both so small (105 Ib.) that they need not diet, but most riders count their calories, knowing well that a heavy rider (118 to 125 Ibs.) gets infrequent engagements, soon discovers that he must look for a job as jockey's agent or exercise...