Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Committee members thanked the Rough Rider, said his testimony was "most reassuring." It was probably much more reassuring than an unexpected depth bomb to a Nazi submarine...
...officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought in from outside...
...ordinary Americans, while FDR puts his trust in trick devices, trial balloons, evasive phrases, and clever propaganda. The jockeying power of the Administration has been simply terrific. The repeal of the Arms Embargo was pushed through as a measure to avoid war, aided by a "cash and carry" rider. Various other departures from our neutrality were countenanced by those who believed in aid to England short of war, as insurance and defense for this country. At this point Roosevelt advanced the plausible theory that Hitler would choose his own moment to strike--so why try to avoid offending...
...collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when you become one of us. I expect to die myself this time. How about you?" "I am willing...
Randolph Scott is the main rider of the range, and treats every crisis with a cool and studied calm. Unfortunately for himself and the lady of the piece, however, his last crisis, when he shoots it out with a wayward brother, does him in. Said lady is thereby left to the endearments of the smooth but sturdy Harvardman, played by Robert Young and his most insipid smirk. The lady is an unknown by the name of Virginia Gilmore, who is blonde if nothing else. Dean Jagger is the capable Western Union boss through all trials and tribulations and does...