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Word: rodes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been checked, that is all." Not until the bulls he had red-flagged came snorting forth was the situation realized. In Prussia, heads come square and hard-so much the worse for Germany. Death of Baring. Sorely and righteously angry in his quiet, aristocratic way, John Baring, Baron Revelstoke, rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Crisis of Reparations | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...President Hoover left Washington last week for the first time since inauguration. He was gone eleven hours on an inspection of his Virginia fishing preserve in Shenandoah National Park. He rode a horse ten miles through mountain woods, tramped three miles more on foot, picked out three camping sites between Double-top and Fork Mountains on the Upper Rapidan. In a black riding habit, Mrs. Hoover accompanied him part way. Forbidden to follow, newsgatherers and cameramen had a holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Workingmen | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Early one morning a large unmarked car rolled out of the White House grounds. At the wheel was Mrs. Hoover. With her rode Mrs. Adolph Ochs, Mrs. Edgar Rickard, Miss Margaret Rickard. They drove around the Tidal Basin, saw the cherry blossoms, circled the Lincoln Memorial. As Mrs. Hoover turned homeward into West Executive Ave. a motorist swung into a parking space, missed it, backed out to try again, thus blocking traffic. Mrs. Hoover gave her horn an impatient toot. Not recognizing her, the motorist signaled the First Lady to "pipe down." She did, smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Workingmen | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Then, on March 4, Mrs. Gann rode to the capitol with Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, only to find no Senate gallery seat reserved for her. Herbert Hoover Jr. gave her his seat. On that occasion Mr. Gann rode alone to the Capitol at the tag-end of the procession. Nobody gave up a seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Goes Out | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...young man on the substitute bench, Leo Durocher, had the answer. Durocher is 23. He did not cost $75,000, nor one-tenth that much. He has been on the Yankee "Yannigan" string for several years. Huggins liked him because he was alive. When the oldtimers "rode"' Durocher he talked back. He even wrote them fresh letters in his off hours. When Durocher talked this time he had the right answer. He wanted to play shortstop. That is just what he will do now and a long step it is for a youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again, Baseball | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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