Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When he came this time, a little group met him at the train. There was handshaking under the belltower of Boise's unique Spanish mission railroad station. The prohibition director for Idaho and Montana took charge of the Senator's luggage. In the car of friends he rode down into the sea of trees beneath the green waves of which are the paved streets and houses of Boise. Trees, you know, gave the city its name; the French voyageurs, at first sight of the wooded valley, cried, "Voyez le bois." It has remained "the wooded city." Home folks...
...wiggled. Emperor William's back itched. This time barons ceased their chit-chat as from the orchestra swelled forth the great chords, low symphony of Das Rhemgold.Wagner tensed-wept in ecstasy as nothing could check storms of frenzied applause. . . . One midnight, seven years later, King Ludwig rode on a black horse alone to Wahnfried, bowed in a garden over the tomb of one of the world's greatest dramatic composers...
Though he rode into that office as a Radical-Socialist when the electorate returned the present "Left Parliament"* in 1924, M. Doumergue is neither "radical" nor "socialist" but a "liberal" endowed with common sense. He has exercised with great tact and ability the thankless role of a President compelled to appoint 9 Ministries of widely varying political complexions within 25 months...
...glittering new houseboat rode majestically on the head waters of the Amazon. On the deck stood a missionary, his wife, and their little South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some such vision swam before the eyes of Reverend and Mrs. F. A. Stahl when announcement was made last week at a Seventh Day Adventist camp near Worcester, Mass., that they had been presented with a houseboat by Mrs. Heber Herbert Votaw, wife of a superintendent of federal prisons, sister...
Born to the West (Jack Holt). It seems there was a pure sweet girl on the eve of a forced marriage with a wicked gambler of the west. In rode Jack Holt from the silent hills and smashed the horrid plot. Dance halls, handsome horses, and mountain grandeur are all there. Old style, perhaps, but good enough...