Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Councilor Edward J. Sullivan introduced the motion on Square traffic, commenting that he has noticed increased danger to pedestrians from the uncontrolled bicycle traffic, including cyclists who ride on the left side of the street...
...another, good business or bad, the real carnies always stick with their show. There is nowhere else to go. When a man's show folds, he will be back next season, owner of one ride, maybe, or a hanky-pank, but working for a stake that will let him open his own again. And each year it is getting harder...
...Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Scholars have given St. John's symbols of strife and destruction various names, though the sixth chapter of Revelations, through which they ride, names only one-Death ("and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him''). The current issue of Saturday Review presents a new theory by an old student. His name: Herbert Hoover...
Point of Departure. Arriving on the waterfront, Brown jumped from his car, plunged through the low-hanging fog to the point where hundreds of workmen were converging on the Star & Crescent ferry slip, ready to ride to their Navy shipyard jobs on North Island. "I'm Pat Brown!" cried Candidate Brown, reaching for workmen's hands as if they were gold nuggets. One, two, three workmen hurried past, heads down, clutching their lunch boxes, leaving Pat's hand dangling in midair. A ferry attendant came up, told...
...thousands to 'elp bring back the lads off the beaches. Sorry day for Blighty, all right. Only one boat makes it across without bein' blown up, and when she gets there, this 'ere corporal and 'is five men 'itch a ride 'ome off 'er without hardly any of the other 100,000 poor bleeders on the beach even stirrin' off their arsenal...