Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chows, Rebecca Raccoon arrived in Washington. At the station to meet the Presidential party were Cabinet Members Mellon, Kellogg, Jardine and Sargent. After handshakes and animal pat-tings, the Coolidges and their companions got into several limousines and swept rapidly through the Capital. Rob Roy, veteran collie, disturbed the ride with bounds, plunges, whines; shedding his white hair on formal apparel, then, he pressed his cold nose against the glass, to get a first glimpse of the White House. Arriving, he bolted down the corridor, into the elevator; jumped on the seat, and gazed upward, eager to rise. Mrs. Coolidge...
...years passed she flew far and often. Her longest ride was from Egypt to France; her most widely advertised, a routine flight from London to Paris on which the plane, forced down, was reported missing for two days. She had also engrossed herself in many an outdoor sport; designed a ski to eliminate ankle wrenches; 'designed an "anti-sea-sickness cot" for ocean voyagers...
...Azores. Head winds and thick weather fought with him. Cautious, he turned his ship and came down on the Spanish coast. With him came down a navigator, a mechanic and E. B. Hosmer, rich Montrealer who had paid him huge, sums ($10,000 was quoted) for a ride across the Atlantic...
...after marrying Alan, gets Jerry back from Dolly on the rebound, helping him terminate a trial ride on the water wagon. Then Jerry's car, "the loudest roar in the Roaring Forties," and too much whiskey, balance her accounts for her. Jerry is not so attractive with a leg cut off. And the lacerations on Gay's lovely little throat are not nearly so costly as the fractures in her reputation, the smear on her soul. She is fairly lucky to find a market for the remains of her "class" in a night club...
specially chartered planes and short-ride airplanes which carried people curious "just to see what it was like" did better business. Nearly 670,000 people took their first bird's-eye-views of life thus...