Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train with President Coolidge rode Pentecost Mitchell of Duluth, whose father organized the first mining company on the Mesaba. Mr. Mitchell, president of U. S. Steel Corp.'s potent subsidiary, Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners...
...WOMAN WHO RODE AWAY-D. H. Lawrence-Knopf...
Charles II, King of England, rode horses in the races at Newmarket: in sporting bars, there are prints that show him leaning back on a lanky thoroughbred, leading the field across a wide and rumpled turf. George IV, when he was Prince of Wales and later during his regency until he began to put on too much weight, rode his thoroughbreds against gentlemen who knew him too well not to pull their mounts when they galloped into the stretch. Last week, for the first time in a century, a prince of England rode to the barrier for a regular race...
...grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, is spending his summer Dick" on the Randall, O-T-O near dude ranch of Livingston, Mont. "Pretty One afternoon last week, a non-dude native remarked: "These Easterners don't know nothing about ridin'." Young Dodge, piqued, boarded a wild steer, rode him without falling off, conquered him. Later, he performed creditably in a rodeo...
Attuned to the delicate harmonies of whispering poplars, 200 Eastern nurserymen watched with surprise the robust entertainment devised by hospitable Denver. Five cowboys, acquired at the stockyards, rode down Denver's Broadway, roping sedate nurserymen, shooting blank cartridges, intimidating nervous pedestrians. Delegates longed for their peaceful greenhouses. Denver, alarmed at what it had started, sent its entertainers to jail...