Search Details

Word: rides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Freddy the Cabman was as temperamental as an opera star about being interviewed. It took the CRIMSON reporter a half hour to persuade him that a few reminiscences, not a nocturnal sleigh ride over frozen Cambridge streets behind old Freddy the Horse, was the object of his approach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coachman to the College Tells of Halcyon Days When "T. R." Was His Fare--Freddy Only Man to Floor Best Man in Union | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

...Leofric, Earl of Mercia and Lord of Coventry. Forthwith, she rode through the streets of Coventry at noon on a white horse and she had nothing on at all but the long-yellow hair which hung down from her head. She was the Lady Godiva, and her ride delivered the people from a tax their lord had put on them and which history has told about. This month the village of Kings Bromley comes up for sale. For the last 100 years it has been held by the Lane family who are now forced to let it go at auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Auction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

During the game all the players will ride strange horses and will exchange their mounts the end of the first half. The match will consist of six five-minute chukkers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON AND BLUE RIDERS TO CROSS MALLETS TONIGHT | 1/15/1927 | See Source »

...ride all night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 1/4/1927 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Fanny Gillette, 98 author of the famed White House Cook Book; at Beverly Hills, Calif She ate three hearty meals a day, exercised morning and night, refused to ride in elevators, was the mother of King C. Gillette, famed razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | Next