Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gifts of medicine come by mail. Every day the police on duty at the gates receive parcels of stuff which are delivered in person. One old lady rode up from the country in a motor car which must have been any age at the outbreak of the late War, and demanded to be taken in front of Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's chief physician. She was handled tactfully, and when she realized that she was unable to see the great doctor she disclosed that she had brought up a jar containing a mixture of linseed, aromatic herbs...
Having died these four deaths urbanely -and being in fact still politically defunct last week-M. le Senateur Joseph Caillaux rode on through the blinding fog, trusting, as rich men will, to a harassed chauffeur who had been told to hurry...
...mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well the importance of his drivers, Mr. Hertz often rode with them, helped beat off strikers...
Obviously guilty of murder, of rape, Negro Shepherd would eventually have been executed by the State of Mississippi. But a hanging did not appeal to the People of Mississippi. It arose, it grasped rifle, shotgun, pistol, it rode on horses by night and it took Negro Shepherd away from the State of Mississippi and dealt with him after its own fashion. In Mississippi, Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took...
...West Coast grew excited; big powerful cars rolled up the white roads that run above the California shore. A moving picture actress with a white Pekingese dog and one other companion rode to the game in her black Rolls-Royce. Graham MacNamee, anxious to start talking, came on from the East. On New Year's Day the sun rode over the Rockies in a mist and swung down over the Pacific, a huge bulb set in a reflector that might have been made out of blue tin. Billy Mundy of the Atlanta Journal sent the game over the radio...