Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blackest woman can ride in a Pullman provided she carries a white baby...
...triumphal breezes billow the drooping banners of Belgium, where King Albert stands bareheaded, his children clinging to their mother's hand. Cardinal Mercier smiles forgiveness. Two Red Cross dogs pant patiently. The famed bicycle boy looks ready to ride again. In front of all the Belgians lie the broken fragments of Gothic masonry. Between Belgians and British, lilies at her feet, stands Nurse Edith Cavell with posthumous decorations on her flowing cape...
...asked to gallop horse after horse every morning during the training hour. It took most of my strength away from me. I had no strength left to ride with during the afternoon. My riding became bad. We lost races which it seemed we should have won. I was riding the best horses, but couldn't win with them and I was blamed for the defeats. But I was still asked to gallop horses every morning. It was either quit Whitney or become a bum as a rider and so I quit Whitney...
...another Jockey, Clarence Kummer, who was hired to ride Mr. Whitney's Whiskery in the Kentucky Derby. But Kummer was recently suspended at Pimlico for rough riding. Mr. Whitney, forthwith, turned to Jockey McAtee with a "won't-you-come-back." Jockey McAtee came with a light heart and a light body...
...granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised a thermal eyebrow. 'What of it?' he asked, and in Chicago two young Jewish psychopathics drew up to the curb in a Dodge, looking for someone to give a ride to. That night the Alabama delegation in the steaming reaches of Madison Square Garden threw twenty-five dogged votes for Oscar Underwood...