Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made a trip back to Texas, to marry Emma Garland Morgan. A few years later he rode in the first Mexican Central train from Mexico City to El Paso, whence he went to New Mexico...
Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...days later a cavalcade of jovial Greek bandits rode over the mountainous divide into Albania, foregathered in the cellar of the leading Greek restaurant in the Albanian capital of Tirana. There the bandit leader, one Constantine Bogdanopoulos, ordered Italian champagne and lamb kidneys broiled on skewers, flung on the table a money belt from which spilled many a drachma, and, later in the evening, boastfully unmasked to a pop-eyed Albanian journalist the mystery of Kopra...
...business woman. "She was a womanly woman and her knowledge of business was nil." During the last few years of his life he rose at 4:30 a. m., spent 20 minutes in exercises, anticipated Calvin Coolidge in the use of an electric horse. For some years, however, he rode each morning a flesh-and-blood horse, always went the same distance on the same roads, and even changed from a walk to a trot and back to a walk again at exactly the same places. Daily he read from the Bible...
...believe so," answered the little Chancellor in a voice curiously meek and soft, "I do believe so!" and twitching himself painfully into his limousine he rode away, whistling pensively. Later, when the whole British press had begun to roar unanimous approval, the little lame Yorkshireman said: "If England is pleased, so am I. I set myself a task and it was not an easy one. Without the help of my wife I could never have achieved...