Word: riding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particularly gigotté and appetizing was a gigolo who recently invited a bejeweled Manhattan matron, one Mrs. Josephine Neumann, 55, to ride with him in the forest of St. Germain-en-Laye. The gigolo said he had sold an automobile to Mr. Neumann. Perhaps Mrs. Neumann also would like to purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he made no romantic overtures. Instead, he brusquely demanded all her jewels and money. Mrs. Neumann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore...
Stone Mountain, Georgia, is an awesome tidal wave of granite which rises above Atlanta. For more than twelve years various persons have schemed to carve upon its surface an overwhelming memorial to the South of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis were to ride in mighty panoply across the stony bluff, surrounded by acres of sculpture representing the Southern armies. From the plain below, children of unimagined generations would stare upward at these heroically chiseled warriors of ancient days. But the men who were to shape these titanic figures have been only human, vexatious, quibbling...
...hills of Italy's Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head of the Fabbricotti line appeared before the Duchess who ruled over...
Also last week Hero Lindbergh was taken for a ride above Hempstead Harbor, Long Island, in a Loening amphibian plane piloted by Miss Eleanor Hoyt, 16-year-old daughter of Broker Richard R. Hoyt...
...late Morris Schinasi, Eurasian Jew who migrated to the U. S. 35 years ago and gained wealth as a maker of Turkish cigarets, kept a glamorous fondness for his birthplace. The town was Magnesia, squalid, dusty, smelly town in Asia Minor, about two hours railroad ride from Smyrna. In his will, opened last week, he gave a fifth of his $5,000,000 fortune, to found and maintain a hospital for Magnesia's poor of all creeds. He also willed much money to Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions...