Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputation. On the errand of verification and summons (if justified), he despatches his loyal foster-brother, Aethelwold (Edward Johnson), whose attitude toward ladies is thus described: "Should a wench but breathe upon him in the dark, he would bury himself till the smell of her were off him." Aethelwold rides off on his mission, to a lusty-spirited folk tune, sung by the chorus (and later, through the corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride." He will say to the maiden: "If thou be as fair...
...ride in these elevators. You will have to step out." The elevator attendant was talking to one of the doctors?Dr. A. G. Fairfax, Negro, of Chicago. Dr. Fairfax skilled to discountenance indignities, replied: "I am standing here on my two feet?and here I stay!" His white colleagues murmured sympathetically; and dumbfounded the elevatorman carried the group to the lobby on the ground floor. Later he explained: "I did not know the colored man was a doctor. My orders from the desk are to allow no colored man to ride in the elevators unless he is with a white...
Have your men (and why not women too?) take their lunch in a package, and they could ride back and forth reading TIME conspicuously between Bowling Green and Brooklyn Bridge all day for a nickel...
Newsstand-buyer Conn's suggestion is at variance with the public good and therefore will not be considered by TIME. If each and every one of the 25,000 periodicals in the U. S. should hire six old men, four old ladies and three "able" flappers to ride perpetually between Bowling Green and Brooklyn Bridge "reading conspicuously," the New York subway would become congested...
...many understand," the captain ended, "we do not allow the students to take out horses alone, until we are sure that there is a reasonable chance that the two will not return individually after the ride...