Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having gotten through eleven billion francs of new taxation by a Chamber vote of 324 to 110 (TIME, August 9) which the Senate confirmed last week, 250 to 13, M. Poincaré seized his opportunity to ride roughshod, informed the Deputies that they must now pass without amendments two more heroic measures of fiscal reform...
...suggestion : TIME'S style is piquant, ticklesome, unique. Of an evening, bored and sleepy, I pick it up for the sheer intellectual pins-and-needles it jabs into me-spurring to action ("Write that letter!"), inspiring to wisecrack with my wife ("Do drop 'Thanks for the buggy ride,' George!") See? TIME'S informatory value being "as every one knows," taken for granted-accurate, complete, swift. . . . But, my dear Sirs, isn't that an absurd paragraph I have just composed? It is a tyro's effort to paraphrase TIME style. It chokes with adjectives...
...made Kipling's "Recessional" sound like a nursery rhyme. Then he was sent to a cavalry camp as a corporal, to fortify his stomach by sleeping near horses and to acquire respect for the Chinese puzzle that is French army discipline. It just happened that he could punch, ride, shoot, drill, sleep, spy, drink, disguise, obey, command and love-his-country better than any one else in that camp, and that his sense of humor had been developed on the famed playing-fields of Eton. So he was soon promoted to posts of great importance, intriguing with desert tribes...
...Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. operates subways, surface cars, elevated trains, motor busses, taxicabs. There are elevators in its buildings. Its messengers pedal bicycles. Its directors ride horseback, sail boats, drive roadsters. Last week it began operating airplanes. The Company had not only contracted for the airmail route between Philadelphia and Washington, D. C., but undertook a passenger service as well. This seventh link* in the country's airmail chain is 123 miles long, from Philadelphia Navy Yard to Hoover Field. Seven passengers made the first trip, among them Airplane Designer Anthony H. G. Fokker of Holland and New York...