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Word: rides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy: " My eldest son, Theodore, Jr., can ride Cossack fashion, standing in his stirrups, and take hurdles like a steeplechase winner. Sons Quentin and Cornelius and daughter Grace share his love of sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department of Justice was secret, brave and successful. It is characteristic of her that she hates trains, that she arrives from a rail-road journey a nervous wreck; but that she can ride a horse steadily for weeks through the most dangerous western passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Rinehart | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...after an evening of singing followed by dancing, train was taken for the other end of Lake Erie, for Detroit. On April 20 the Club arrived in Cleveland, where, before the concert, the men were entertained at the Annual Banquet of the Harvard Club of that city. A short ride south brought the organization to Canton, where the fifth concert was given in Cleveland, to which the Club had returned. There in the Masonic Hall and accompanied by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra a special rehearsal of "Chant de guerre" was held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX CITIES HEAR GLEE CLUB SINGING | 4/23/1923 | See Source »

Alvin Owsley, National Commander of the American Legion: " Marooned at Baton Rouge, La., by washouts on the railroad, I refused to fly by aeroplane to make a speaking engagement. Said I: 'I promised my wife that I would not ride in a plane, and I'll stick to the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...barren room on the top floor of the Foreign Office, he is as far removed socially and physically from the lower as from the upper crust. . . . Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him. He abhors new clothes, does not like to ride in automobiles. . . . Does every little task for himself like sharpening his own pencils. . . . Here is Mr. Tchitcherin, member of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families in Russia, for four years now guiding with such delicate hands and careful brain the affairs of state, in order that all that once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mirrors of Moscow | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

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