Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright blue and red tanbark, girl rope climbers who looked like Ziegfeld chorines, wedding-cake beautifications, Peter Arno drawings in the programs, refreshments passed on china platters. If they were old or sentimental enough, they were wondering what had become of the pink lemonade, the gold-toothed lady bareback rider, the gaudy, dirty, bewildering oldtime magic...
Provided. In Portland, Ore., the Navy received from a wife her written consent to her husband's enlistment. To the approved form she had added a rider: "It is further understood and agreed that he shall be well fed at all times, be well and sufficiently clothed, shall not be overworked, shall not be issued too much grog, and, finally, shall not be allowed to associate with dissolute characters...
Entered in the two-mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...
...went to Sandhurst, which with some difficulty turned him into a cavalry subaltern. Then he went to Cuba, where he acquired a taste for cigars and siestas. He anticipated Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt's visit by two years. "Imagination falters," says Guedalla, "at the possibilities of an encounter on the same terrain...
...that its spring issue of 1942 will probably be its last. Louisiana State University decided it can no longer afford the $10,000 a year the Review costs. Back to full-time teaching in the English department will go Review Editors Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider). Says L.S.U.'s prexy, Major General Campbell Blackshear Hodges...