Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spencer's ride brought him back to the title he had held in 1917 and 1920. When he won in 1917, he was the first man to pedal past Frank Kramer, for 16 years unbeaten. After winning, Spencer oiled up his cycle for use against Peter Moeskops, giant Hollander, who won the World's title a fourth consecutive time last month at Paris. Moeskops had come to the U. S. The three races scheduled between Spencer and Moeskops will be in the nature of a challenge match. Spencer did not compete at Paris...
Nevertheless, it enabled her, some 16 years after she had divorced him and some 50 years after he had been Vice President, to ride regally through France on the glory of his title. Once, on a country road, when her carriage was checked by some marching soldiers, the indomitable old bluffer stood up in her carriage and cried: "Place á la veuve du Vice Président des États-Unis!" And the awe-struck military, not being expected to be conversant with so much American history, promptly stood at attention as she drove imperially past...
...brilliantly had he manipulated that lone porker, that he had at length attained unto dizzying financial plenitude and a mansion on Chicago's Gold Coast. He had, moreover, a passion for cleanliness. In public life, he stood for: "Clean Water Supply (Prohibition!), Clean Education (Paul Revere's Ride!), Clean Literature (Pollyanna!), Clean Minds (belief in the stork...
...this Mr. Foster might have replied with great point: "We don't want a pure Communist organization nor a pure Communist platform because it will serve us better to control a party which might get many non-communist votes?on that account we would have liked to ride on the tail of Mr. LaFollette's kite. It would give us an opening and make a better impression in Moscow...
...about fifty. Height, about six feet. Of commanding yet gracious presence. Occupation, a successful lawyer and farmer. Means, a competency, every cent of which was made in unexceptionable pursuits, from untainted clients. Health, perfect, signalized by the ability to box with Muldoon, ride with W. S. Hart and eat anything. Oratory, colorful yet dignified, a pleasing compromise between the stilted phraseology of Webster and the poetic nights of Prentiss. Ethnology, Scotch-English- Irish-German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator...