Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Making and taking the breaks of a see-saw football battle in the Bowl, the Blue Bulldogs rose from the slough of four drab Saturdays of defeat, and rode to a 12 to 7 triumph over the Crimson on two deadly accurate field goals by Wadsworth and Bunnell...
Several characters from Constantinople fell in the drinking fountain and had a Turkish bath. Wild west characters with guns and spurs rode the floor to perfection, not pulling leather either...
...Maryland that ardent letter-writer, Senator Ovington E. Weller, Republican, was defeated by Representative Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, who rode to victory on the wave of Wet-and-popular Governor Ritchie. Mr. Weller's campaign philosophy was that every voter would like to have a cheery letter from a U. S. Senator. He congratulated mothers on the birth of babies; he flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have...
Midnight March. The field commander for Colonel Garibaldi was that famed Catalonian patriot, Colonel Francisco Macia. For years he has striven to foment a revolution which should set his native Cataloniaf free from the dominance of Madrid. Last week he rode at midnight toward the Spanish frontier with a glad heart. Were not the invading 400 patriots equipped with rifles, machine guns, a medical corp, and even a strong box heavy with newly designed and minted Catalan money? All was prepared...
...Rock Island, Ill., one Beulah Nichols, 16, guzzled gin, entered the bedroom of one W. H. Mahoney, 75; pointed a revolver at him, disrobed, put on Mr. Mahoney's clothes, forced him to cut her hair below a slouch cap, "hopped" a freight train with her "boy friend," rode to Galva, Ill., spent the day, "hopped" another freight train, "bummed" her way home, was received by her parents with open arms. Soon newsgatherers discovered that Beulah Nichols' mother is "Vashti Dale," author of articles for household magazines on "How to Train Girls...