Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time that the eyes of public cameras had seen President Coolidge on the back of a horse, either iron or flesh & blood. Dressed in complete cowboy costume down to Mexican spurs, the President rode three miles up the side of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, accompanied by his riding instructor, "Dakota Clyde" Jones; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and others. Following a presidential salute of 21 blasts,? President Coolidge dedicated the national memorial which Gutzon Borglum began to carve on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that...
...Fascist press kept up a steady barrage of comment favorable to paunchy King Fuad, and whenever he rode out crowds of Fascisti displayed loud enthusiasm...
...smart cavalcade of the Household Cavalry trotted through Bucharest as the advance guard of a procession. Came the Prefect of Police, then the Marshal of the Court. Came finally a State carriage, in which sat the young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced and abdicated his rights (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), and proceeded...
...region of Yermuk, as the quake began, a railway train was chuffing steadily along rails laid on the side of a hill only six feet from the edge of a 300-foot precipice. In one of the cars rode Lieutenant Colonel George Stewart Symes, Acting British High Commissioner for Palestine...
...eclipses, tens of thousands of excursionists aped the expected royal pilgrimage. At the last moment threatening weather caused Queen Mary to remain snug at Buckingham Palace. The King, not so easily daunted, made a short excursion from London out to Newmarket. There, 170 miles fom Giggleswick, His Majesty rode out upon his horse at dawn and ruefully observed only a thin crescent of light in a cloudy sky at the moment of eclipse...