Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bandit took no jewelry or other valuables. With a loot of no more than $800 he fled. He did not even look into the express car, where the dining car steward was hiding with $300 in cash. Out into the hills to catch the bandit "dead or alive" rode hundreds of searchers?sheriffs, deputies, policemen, railroad detectives, cowboys. Six suspects were rounded up, questioned, released. Then the hunt was abandoned...
...discussion of theological subtleties in the twentieth they hear a symphony go to the theatre or dine at a roadhouse a hundred miles from Cambridge. For decades they walked across the fields to visit with one of the five or six thousand families settled about Massachusetts Bay, then they rode post coaches to Boston in an hour later they came home from debates across the Charles their feet buried in straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop...
Likely Lady has been known all over the country and won blues everywhere except in Chicago, where she was sick. Robert Moreland, famed Kentucky horse-trader, bred her. Mr. & Mrs. Harold Palmer of Grosse Point, Mich., own her. One James Thompson rode her, sitting back in the Kentucky style to accentuate the machine-like rhythm of her action. She won the most important class for saddle horses...
...came a history: Francisco Vasquez Coronado. who in 1541, looking for El Dorado, discovered Nebraska; Indians, led by Crow Chief Max Big Man; prairie schooners; oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside...
With babe on knee George V rode through a mile of fluttering women's handkerchiefs and hearty Englishmen's cheers. At the Palace he kissed Betty goodbye, shut her firmly into the limousine, ordered the chauffeur to drive to the house of her parents, the Duke and Duchess of York (No. 145 Piccadilly). As Baby Betty waved out the back window, George V firmly marched up the stair to the royal apartments...