Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berbers Ride. On Feb. 25, thousands of pro-French El Glaoui's Berber horsemen, wearing their war medals and flying the French tricolor attached to spears and old muzzle-loading guns, descended from the Atlas Mountains, headed for Fez and Rabat. Nervous townsmen bolted their shops; Arab women were kept indoors...
London reporters jumped at the chance to interview Hollywood Director John Huston, his stars Humphrey Bogart (with wife Lauren Bacall "going along for the ride") and Katharine Hepburn, all on their way to Tanganyika to film C. S. Forester's The African Queen. As the crowd met for noon cocktails and questions, Miss Hepburn jumped at the chance to get off some inside comments (which saw solemn print next day). Dressed in an oatmeal-colored slack suit and flat brown shoes, easily stealing the scene from Mrs. Bogart who wore only a black & white Paris suit, she burbled...
...will provide most of the opposition for the varsity track team today, with Holy Cross thrown in for the ride. The Terriers, who have won their first two meets this spring, boast several outstanding men who should be able to pile up quite a few points. The Crusaders have only one runner who is a serious threat...
...last she invents an alter ego named Tony Something and trails off with her on a bus ride to oblivion. Right at the start, Tony Something is swept away by the crowd to the back of the bus; Natalie is left alone among the "enemy," which, to her tortured mind, now includes the whole human race. She tries to escape. They close in, holding her motionless. The man on her left nods and winks to the others. A woman's coat brushes mockingly against Natalie's face. Natalie thinks that all of them are in a plot...
...Usually the girls tip very scantily, and seem quite squeamish about it," complained one man. "But one time I had a surprise. A girl insisted on sitting in front, while her date remained in the back seat. At the end of the ten minute ride, she made the poor guy tip me two dollars. I couldn't understand...