Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year in direct grants is the more realistic is obscured by politics and lack of statistics. Few, however, will deny that schools could use the extra money of the Democrat's proposal. Another criticism is leveled at the President's message by several liberal legislators who would attach a rider to the bill banning aid to segregated schools. Such a rider would not only be misplaced, but would mean death by filibuster for the program...
...fighter in cow-town clubs. It was on Seabiscuit that he rode to fame. But during the summer of 1938, when the great bay horse was training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program between Woolf in a Boston broadcasting studio and Pollard in his hospital room. I gave Pollard, whose...
Members of The Blue Rider aspired to nothing less than painting the essence of things. They put feeling first, faithfulness to nature or to formal conventions last. They were the clear, sweet dawn of German expressionism, a school that later languished from too much heaviness, bitterness and swagger...
...father Jesse Crowell, 64, a retired streetcar conductor in Gaylord, Mich., was amazed and "awful sorry" to learn that Ann Woodward was the daughter he had not seen or heard of in 23 years. "I taught her how to sit on a horse, and she later became a good rider," he recalled proudly. "I'm sure that was a great help to her when she began to associate with high society." For years he had been under the impression that his daughter was Actress Eve Arden (Our Miss Brooks...
...interesting. But a thought, as troublesome as Geronimo, persists in the reader's mind that the cowboy is perhaps best left as myth. William MacLeod Raine and Clarence E. (Hopalong Cassidy) Mulford (whom the authors call a "second-rate practitioner"), or even Zane Grey, that old rider of the purple page, may be -better custodians of the cowboy than two teachers trying to put the brand of their scholarship on the twitching flanks of popular legend...