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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heard Adolf Hitler was alive in South America and wanted to give a million dollars to the American Mercury, I would go down and get it-or Stalin." No matter who the backer is, Huie maintains he can control the Mercury's editorial policy, expects the magazine will ride out this storm, as it has so many others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble for the Mercury | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Radcliffe's winter weekend, climaxed by the Cristmas Formal on Saturday, December 13, opens next Friday night when Moors Hall undertakes a proposed sleigh ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Completes Plans for Formal | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

...weather will determine whether the sleigh ride turns into a hay ride or a record dance. But whatever the affair, it will be preceded by dinner for couples and succeeded by marshmallows and cider back at the dorm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Completes Plans for Formal | 12/4/1952 | See Source »

...William C. Chance, an aging Negro high-school principal, got aboard an Atlantic Coast Line railway coach in Philadelphia, bound for his home in Parmele, N.C. When the train crossed into Virginia, the conductor asked Principal Chance to move into a Jim Crow car for the rest of his ride. Chance refused, was taken off the train at Emporia, Va. and arrested for disorderly conduct. He sued for $25,000 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: The Principal's Principle | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

Montana Belle (RKO Radio) casts Jane Russell as the infamous lady bandit Belle Starr, "who can ride and shoot like a man." When men are not falling dead in front of Belle's six-shooters, they are swooning at her feet. She is pursued by Outlaw Bob Dalton (Scott Brady), a lesser outlaw named Mac (Forrest Tucker) and a suave professional gambler (George Brent). Belle so inflames these various characters that they get to uttering such phrases to each other as: "No man takes a woman away from me and lives." During all this, Belle, dressed in tight black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1952 | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

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