Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent the trip trying to estimate what a helicopter costs, concluded that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret Servicemen loitered watchfully in the saplings outside Laurel Lodge, Ike's aides...
When Al Capone was public enemy No. 1, an estimated 4,000 Chicagoans died in gang wars in the 15 years from 1920 to 1935. Such niceties as the bulletproof car, the sawed-off shotgun, and the one-way ride* were either inaugurated or raised to their ultimate refinement in Chicago. Such blood-spattered tableaux as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the killing of Gangster Dion O'Banion in a fern bank in his florist shop, glamoured up in Chicago's Front Page newspaper tradition, shocked and thrilled a generation of Americans and Europeans...
...given a sulfa treatment for her spear wound and nursed back to health (on a diet of clams and cucumbers) in a local swimming pool. No available aircraft could carry a tankful of water big enough to enclose a sea-elephant, but since the taxi ride proved that Eugenie could live out of water, Dr. Harry decided to fly her home on an air mattress...
After he had piled up millions in San Francisco real estate, Reese still refused to pay a nickel for a streetcar ride and thought 25? too much for a dinner. A contemporary described him sitting in his shabby office, "before him a large pile of $1,000 U.S. Government bonds, and he was clipping off the coupons. That face! Like a hungry boy taking into his mouth a ripe cherry, or a mother gazing down into the face of her pretty sleeping child." To a Methodist preacher, Reese once said: "My love of money is a sort of insanity...
...baby, Peter, who is four months old; Manning does a fair share of the cooking. "I'd like to lead a glamorous life," she says, "but it tires me out." As it is, she scarcely drinks four shots of whisky in a year, and a taxi ride is almost like a spree. She has no jewelry, no furs. She still wears some blouses that she bought in high school. The spice of her life is a window-shopping walk down Fifth Avenue...