Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task, he falters and cannot win. It was a sad thing that happened, last week, at Laurel, Md. There Epinard was running ; the race, the Laurel Stakes; the distance, one mile; the prize, $10,000. He was a favorite among favorites, "for," said the lean men who ride horses, the fat men who bet on them...
...knocked and dragged). There was also a girl and, usually, a dynamite job under the canyon bridge. Roaring Rails has all of these plus a small section of the World War. The hero is a locomotive engineer. People who are burdened with deep intelligence are cautioned not to ride behind...
...Maude rambled on. "I sent my boy to Oxford to prepare for a career at the bar. I never should have wanted him to go on the stage, but as I say, it isn't nearly half so bad if you have a separate income to ride you over the bumps...
...snapped and retired. Cheers and handclaps were absent, but most of the spectators strained their necks. All present were impressed with the Baron's good sportsmanship. He smiled throughout the game, despite the fact that the British were losing. ¶Next day, lunch with Harrison Williams, a motorboat ride, dinner with Julius Fleischmann, yeast...
Into a Paris garage rolled a roadster, hot from the Dieppe road. The hour was a wee, small one. The garage was full downstairs. The mechanic on duty so informed the driver of the roadster, requested that he steer to the elevator for a ride to the second floor. Out leaped the 'driver. "I," said he, "am Georges Carpentier," bashed the mechanic's nose with his gorgeous right fist. With an untranslatable exclamation, the mechanic dove at his customer's knees, tackled, rolled the Orchid Man of France upon the greasy garage floor, pummelled, beat, ejected...