Word: riding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade of American Legionnaires and police. He reached Cedar Island Lodge on the Brule River, 35 miles away, shortly before noon. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the lodge 40 minutes later, having stayed on the train until it reached a place called Winneboujou, in order to avoid a long automobile ride...
Other people got excited when Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, home from smoothing out affairs of oil in Mexico, went for a ride on the Mayflower with President Coolidge...
...Francis C. Chadwick of Ardema, N. J. went out for an airplane ride with his son Stewart. Over Asbury Park, he leaned out of the cockpit to see what the famed resort looked like from a height of 1,000 feet. His spectacles fell from his nose. Next day the same spectacles, undamaged, were returned to Mr. Chadwick by Arthur Van Brunt, on whose Asbury Park farm they had fallen...
...distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals?and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...
...more than useful improvement for the benefit of Rotton Row riders was suggested recently by dashing Major George Melas, once private secretary to the late King Constantine of Greece. George Melas created a furor among smart, horsey people by proposing that a special riding track with fences (hurdles) be laid out adjoining the Row. Added he: "It would not only promote real horsemanship, but would also afford a display of skill to pedestrians who go to the Row to watch the riders going aimlessly up and down the same straight, monotonous line, showing only that they can hold a saddle...