Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...camp near a cannery at Washington, Ill. One morning, just after roll call, Reinhold ducked under the wire, sauntered to the shelter of some trees, changed into his escape costume, and walked down the highway in full view of the encampment. Nobody paid him any attention. He thumbed a ride to Peoria with a farmer, who did not appear to notice Reinhold's German accent...
...there would be problems. We'd have to clean the show up. Kitty would have to be living with her parents on a sweet little ranch . . . And Matt, he'd have to wear buckskin and swagger around with his guns blazing. He'd even have to ride a pure white charger. Of course, if a sponsor did come along who would let us leave Gunsmoke as it is, then we'd really be pleased...
...also like to swim, bowl, and horseback ride, but my real hobby is collecting car-rings. Wrestling is just work...
Blues on the River (Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band; Decca LP). Trumpeter Yank Lawson and Bass Fiddler Bob Haggart, onetime nerve centers of Bob Crosby's Bobcats, take their outfit on a music ride down the Mississippi (from Davenport, Iowa to New Orleans) in the grand old style...
...land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women "are pretty, they're Mexicans. If they look like horses, they're Texans . . ." Texas cowboys can't even ride horses; on the last U.S. equestrian Olympic team, the "members came from Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...