Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud as her head struck the oak floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale...
...Newark, the air was filled, as it sometimes is, with straw hats. With the hats went up great cheers for Arthur Spencer, who rode his bicycle slowly around the Newark Velodrome, bowing, smiling, showing off a silver loving cup that had just been given him as emblem of the world's cycling derby championship. A few minutes before, Spencer, back arched like a cat's, legs pumping furiously, had torn after Peter Moe-skops, giant Hollander, who won the world's title at Paris in August, had "nipped him at the tape" by inches in the last...
...First of all came oil. At the head of the buccaneers as they marched along rode the Secretary of the Interior. And after oil, the veterans. Here was a rare field for enterprise. A year and a half after Congress had appropriated $33,000,000 for building purposes, only 200 hospital beds had been added to the Bureau's equipment, and those in a hospital purchased readymade. If it be true that public interest in these things has waned, is it not a public duty to see that it is revived before the day of judgment comes...
...Thomas N. McCarter, wife of the President of the Rumson Country Club, awaited the victors in front of the clubhouse. When they rode up, she presented her congratulations and a trophy to each of the following: E. G. Miller, A. P. Perkins, C. F. Burke, Eric Pedley, likely member of the U. S. "Big Four" (TIME...
...Everest Expedition of 1924 returned to humanity and civilization. Gen. Bruce, head of the expedition, who was forced to retire because of an attack of malaria (TIME, June 16) rode out of Darjelling and met the returning party several miles in the country. When the party reached the town, Lady Lytton and her guests gave it a handsome welcome. Gen. Bruce and Lieut. Col. Norton settled down to wind up the affairs of the expedition before returning to Calcutta...