Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have said nothing about such miscellaneous diversions as safety campaigns, fire-prevention week (when youngsters ride the fire wagon instead of learning to read), or that favorite excrescence on school programs (and budgets): driver training . . . We allow ourself one more question . . . If your school resembles a clambake or decathlon, if it seems more likely to bewilder and daze than to sharpen, furnish, and organize young minds, whose, ultimately, is the fault...
...Student Council Ride Bureau reports that its main trouble is securing drivers. Many people are reluctant to offer rides, possibly because they would rather make arrangements with friends or dislike taking chances with unfamiliar companions. The many signs on bulletin boards with such pleas as "Is anyone going to Timbooga, New Mexico" are witness to this fact...
...wires would seem to promise wacky complications and entangling alliances in all five boroughs, with some of the offbeat sassiness of an On the Town. But despite bookies posing as musicians, and a dentist who yearns to write songs, despite visits to penthouses and nightclubs, and a rollicking subway ride, Bells Are Ringing-even in its liveliest dancing-sticks to Broadway, Broadway, all evening long...
...According to Fisher, this sort of a ride was routine for Hollister. "Paul always used to let the elevator hit the basement floor. Only, the winch never gave way before. Depending on his morale, Paul would go faster or slower. He out-did himself on this occasion...
...only other person who ever knew was my geography professor. He used to ride motorcycles and had a bashed nose. So he never told anyone," Hollister says...