Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...
...botanists privilege of witnessing the yearly carnival or Fiestas Civicas, held in Liberia in the last days of January. Being the center of the cattle country where most citizens carry revolvers at their belts, the town, with its gaily popular celebrations, attracted the native cowboys or sabaneros. They rode in from long distances on fine horses, their saddles decorated in the most colorful of leathers, but these otherwise well-dressed horsemen rode in their stirrups bare-footed. The traditional square dances, queens, representing the two orders of society, football games, and sweetly melodious marimba concerts in the moonlight were...
While pious Mexicans decorated the village church at Ahuacatlan in preparation for Palm Sunday last week, bearded, unkempt J. E. Bristow of San Angelo, Tex., rode into town on the back of an ass. A three-week bandit chase by Mexican Federal troops had ended. Somewhere in the mountains an able kidnaper and bandit chief named Cruz Delgado was dividing $5,000 in gold among his followers. Back in San Angelo Mrs. Bristow received a three-word telegram from her Oklahoma footballer son, Gordon ("Obie") Bristow: DAD WITH ME. Mrs. Bristow cried, "Thank God! Thank God!" and then collapsed...
Days passed. From Mexico City came exciting accounts of a battle in which three bandits had been killed by the Federal troops. In the town of Tepic grew a much more definite story that Bandit Cruz Delgado was demanding more money. When Prospector Bristow rode into Ahuacatlan on his donkey last week the true story became known. "Obie" Bristow had bargained with mysterious agents of Bandit Delgado for over a week. A ransom of $5,000 was finally agreed upon and paid. Followed the prisoner's release...
...miles (1,206,767,059) than ever before the number of passengers (33,434,268) fell off 2,638,943 from the five-year peak. The average Pullman passenger traveled 420 miles on each trip last year, 25 miles further than he did in 1925. But where 13 people rode in each Pullman car in 1925, only 11 people rode in 1929. Result: many more empty upper berths...