Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boss O'Leary is not yet engaged, loves to dance and ride horseback. But she takes her duties seriously, says she will get the women of her district together immediately to see what can be done about improving playgrounds and housing...
...Lady Elizabeth was mentioned prominently, it was not "David" (the future Edward VIII) but "Bertie," then Duke of York, who presently came to Glamis and did his best to propose during his visit. The Duke, acutely conscious of his speech impediment but also tremendously in love, went for a ride with Lady Elizabeth on the day scheduled for his departure, finally tore a leaf from his notebook in desperation scribbled what he wanted to say and passed it over...
...much as they scrapped what the democracies called economics, the totalitarian countries scrapped what democracies called common sense. To ride the whirlwind of change, solemnly to preach howling absurdities, cheerfully to embrace glaring contradiction-all this served to conceal the war's aims, to hide its agony, to blur its issues. Guns and submarines and planes threatened the national existence of Britain and France. But speeches and explanations were directed like bombs against their reason...
Chubby (George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
Still handsome at 45, tall, black-haired, brogueish, magnetic Rex Ingram prefers tequila to Scotch, smokes pipes and cigars, hates to ride in airplanes, says he needs very little money to get along on. To people who ask him if he doesn't get bored with so little work to do, Rex Ingram replies that he only started to work when he quit his job in Hollywood...