Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest blow struck in the name of the sanctity of the American way of life, the House Veterans Affairs Committee recently approved a rider which will prohibit the use of any GI Bill educational funds to Communists, Communist sympathizers, or anyone whose allegiance is to a nation "subservient" to Russia. If this should become law, no longer might American colleges be burdened with government-financed veterans who are subversive in the eyes of Parnell Thomas and other defenders of the democratic tradition...
High Horse. In Joplin, Mo., cops spotted a horse and rider wandering erratically down the street, quickly jugged the rider, despite his indignant claims that he was perfectly sober-the horse was drunk...
...fatherless family moved to the grimy city of Leeds. Young Read attended a spartan city school whose only romanticism lay in the library's collection of Rider Haggard. At 15, he became a bank clerk (at ?20 a year) and a "true-blue Tory," at 17 a disciple of Alfred Tennyson and William Blake. At 22, he was swept off to World War I-stopping off long enough in London to hand a publisher his first volume of poems...
...issued a warning: there must be no skullduggery. Nobody had ever before felt the need to issue such a warning at Epsom Downs' big race. But a rumor had gone around that the other jockeys were going to take it easy and let England's alltime champion rider, Gordon Richards, win (TIME, June 2). It was a chance to get Richards out of their hair: they had heard that wealthy little Jockey Richards would retire if he won the race on the odds-on favorite, Tudor Minstrel...
...little lamely, that the Skipper was a rear admiral. But newsmen, whom she greeted in a sky-blue negligee, got several versions of his career: he had really been only a Navy captain, but she had boosted his rank to help "open Washington doors"; he had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was bitten by a cobra while hunting with Roosevelt in Africa; he had been called ashore by General Pershing in France, where he joined the Rainbow Division...