Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were married in a hurry, in a civil ceremony performed by a Catholic priest who had known Miss Henry since she first went to Monterey, Calif., and rode horseback with flying pigtails. They had to hurry because Engineer Hoover was sailing again from California for his second big job, to advise the young Emperor of China about his ancestral mines and newfangled railroads...
...Senate office building, Mayor Walker rapped with his cane on the door of a fellow Tammany-man, Senator Wagner. After cheers and handshaking, the party rode to the Capitol on the "subway" (a small, electric, underground train connecting the Senators' offices with their clubroom...
...sprint had threatened to beat Georgetti. So had Letourner and Brocardo, two small, nervy French boys. On the fifth night Brocardo fell four times, skidded down the wall of the saucer, strapped to his pedals. The third time he was knocked unconscious. In fifteen minutes he got up and rode again. McNamara, "Iron Man," was booed all through the race. Brocco, 43-year old champion trying to come back, pedaled till his rheumatic legs stiffened like hooks, forcing him out. A visiting band announced that as a tribute to Veteran Frederick Spencer they would play "When You and I Were...
...Petersburg, Fla., her 104th birthday duly celebrated. Mrs. Catherine Fenton of Jamestown, N. Y., went up for her first airplane ride last week. She rode with George W. Haldeman, who piloted Ruth Elder to a spot in the Atlantic somewhere near the Azores. Said Mrs. Fenton: "I am happy, O, so happy...
...tired, greying statesman donned formal raiment, last week at Belgrade, submitted while a valet pinned upon him the blazing orders which are his, and then rode wearily off to the white stone Royal Palace...