Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roads. The French peasants, for that is what they are, trudged to work. But for the trailing moss on the live-oaks it was like a southern province at home, in real France. The men doffed their hats, whether or not they knew who it was that rode in the so beautiful automobile, The women answered questions volubly and swiftly appraised Mademoiselle's beauty of which they all spoke afterwards. At Napoleonville she made them catch their breaths when she laid her freshest bouquet at the base of a new memorial inscribed Aux Morts de la Patrie...
...house was built in 1762 by John Hicks who lived in it with his family until the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Being an ardent sympathizer with the patriot cause, he received word on April 19, 1775, of the battle of Lexington. He gathered together three friends and rode with them, armed and provisioned, to the North Cambridge turnpike, where he prepared an ambush for the returning red-coats...
Three weeks ago, Will H. Hays rode down New York Harbor in a steamer. He was bound on cinema business to Europe but thought best to make it clear that he was not running away from the Senate's investigation of the G. O. P.'s receipts of Oil money (TIME, March 12). Last week, James M. Cox, who was beaten for President in 1920 by the Hays-managed, Oil-financed Harding campaign, rode down New York Harbor on a cutter, to meet Mrs. Cox, who was returning from Europe. Ship-news reporters asked Mr. Cox about...
Resolutely His Majesty rode on and performed his royal duty: the opening of the Sample Fair. That done-and done quickly-he motored in haste to the hospital where victims of the explosion were receiving treatment. There, as a kindly King and Father, he spoke quietly and as consolingly as might be the suffering...
...rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...