Word: riding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They know the Prince won't ride them any more. Horses feel things like that just as the Prince feels parting with them...
...always exclusive. Apartment house elevators are few and far between. Service elevators are unknown. Such lifts as there are are proudly marked "Nur für Herrschaften"-"For Gentry Only!" It is always understood, and generally written in the lease, that no messengers, delivery boys, or servants may ride in the lift except when the servant is accompanied by the employer or the employer's dog, cat, etc. That has been the rule, but last week a new day broke for flat-footed menials...
JOHN C. WRIGHT* Author of "The Long Night Ride of William Dawes." San Diego, Calif...
...dusk one evening in 1920 a taxicab rolled up to Jackson Barnett's door. A well-dressed white woman stepped out. She said she was interested in oil and asked him to go for a ride. It was getting dark; he did not want to go. But he was a good-natured Indian who could not say no. He grinned and went. They drove to Okemeh, 18 miles away, and there spent the night. She was not a bad looking white woman...
...ride the next day the woman asked "Jack" if he had ever thought of getting married. He had not. She said she would marry him. He did not want a wife, he said. She insisted he ought to have one. His inability to say "no" again overpowered him. They drove to Coffeyville, Kan., and were married...