Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King was Ahmed Bey Zogu who the day before had been President. A salvo of 101 guns was prelude to the coronation ceremonies. Lusty cheers greeted Ahmed Zogu as he later rode in state over the narrow streets of Tirana, Albania's dirty capital, which sweltered, as usual, under a bright...
...deep guttural oration issued from the cavern of his throat. He did not move a muscle when the bottle of champagne tinkled and exploded. Afterwards Old Paul von Hindenburg rode away to begin his vacation, hunting chamois in Bavaria. But Germans remembered his words...
...growth of cities was a slow change, once. Generations lived and died and the wolves looked down from the hills at night, at the closed gates of the city and its lighted houses or dark streets. Armies rode out and returned, victorious or defeated; plagues descended, disappeared; a king died or a traveler came from far away; gods were discovered and forgotten and the people in the city lived in the same houses, the wolves still stood on the hills at night, looking at the same city, the same walls. Cities are built more quickly now, without walls, in places...
...German citizens of Baden never ceased to cheer His Grand Ducal Highness, when he rode out among them, palsied and almost blind. Once he wore the uniform of Commanding General of the German Eighth Army Corps; but at the close of the War he was among the first petty rulers of German states to abdicate in favor of Democracy...
Charles Lanier Lawrance, famed designer of the Wright Whirlwind motor (TIME, Feb. 13) was piloting an Avro-Avian above and about Curtiss Field. With him rode J. B. Taylor, vice president of Air Associates, Inc., owners of the plane. Violent air currents bowed the ship's head. It shivered, dived. As it came to earth it straightened out automatically, damaging only the landing gear. Experts attributed this salvation of the flyers to the slot...