Word: rode
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer a game, it is no longer even a dangerous game in which strength and skill of individuals, of staffs, even of armies can prevail. It is scientific destruction. The Frankenstein created by man is triumphant, and man must kill it. When strong men rode out to meet strong men, face to face and sword against sword, war was little more to be condemned that a football game. It was Olympian strife...
...there with Die Meistersinger. That was unfortunate. It had to meet the severest and most direct competition in the superb Meistersinger which Mr. Bodanzky conducted at the Metropolitan, one of the very finest performances of this or any other season. The Wagnerian company production of the opera last season rode advantageously on the happy welcome which greeted the first performance of the work in New York for a long time. But now, with the appetite a little sated, the handicaps of a traveling and of a more or less improvised company were seen with sharp disillusionment. The scenery was poor...
...Gonatas-Plastiras government rode into power in 1922 on the backs of a revolting army and a wave of revulsion of popular feeling against a king who had refused to join the Allies and made a mess of a campaign against the Turk. To make their position quite safe, the Revolutionists proceeded to execute the governing ministers and to get rid of King Constantine. Evidently then believing that they had better "make haste slowly," they invited Constantine's son to take the throne for awhile. Now, feeling with some reason that the new king had a hand in the abortive...
...Joseph Chamberlain, fresh from his triumphs as Colonial Secretary took up the cry of protection and carried on a whirlwind campaign which ended only in the smashing Conservative defeat of 1906. Led by Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith, the Liberals just recovered from the divisions of the Boer war, rode to their greatest victory of the century on the horse of free-trade--a victory they are hoping to repeat by the same means next month...
...rarely used an automobile. He either walked or rode on a trolley next to the motorman...