Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second race at Churchill Downs, Jockey Willie Hartack, aboard a maiden filly named Quail Egg, was thrown when Quail Egg reared in the starting gate, broke his left leg in the tumble. Winning on Quail Egg would have earned Willie some $200. Falling off cost him a ride on Kentucky Derby Favorite Tim Tarn, and a chance for upwards of $12,000 as his share of the purse...
...another case last week two students returning to the Radcliffe dormitories were approached by a man offering to provide a ride in his car. The girls refused, on the pretense of going only as far as the Commander Hotel. The same man apparently accosted two other groups that night in the same area...
Fitz has been quick and ready to ride off on his own crusades. In 1936, when the P-D fell off its ideological platform and backed Landon against Franklin Roosevelt, and again in 1948 when it backed Dewey against Truman, ardent Democrat Fitzpatrick put down his crayon and went off fishing. Talking to Democrat Mauldin about his new job, Publisher Pulitzer asked what he would do if the P-D backed candidates he could not stomach. "Well," said Mauldin, "I guess I'd go fishing too." Grinned Pulitzer: "Fine...
...seems probable that she will make suburbia after all, for on the bus, in the final, movie-ending ride away from carefree childhood, sits the man who has waited for her to grow up-Playwright Wally (Marty Milner). Except for his freckles and the wide-rimmed spectacles he uses to help hide them, Wally looks, talks, thinks and acts just like the lawyer or the doctor: conventional, respectable and successful. Thus, Marjorie's parents (Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane) can rest assured that middle-class morality has triumphed...
...junior Democratic senator from Oklahoma, speaking on "The Future of the Democratic Party," warned that the nation is "going on the same train ride that we went on from 1925 to 1929." He added, however, that he was not afraid of a major recession because of the good work done by past Democratic administrations...