Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comey's home still." Later Mrs. Comey relented, led 14 newsmen through the house, let them gape at the wine cellar in the basement, the billiard room in the attic, the sweeping outlook across meadowlands to Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom. The press inspectors rode up and down in the self-operating house elevator, stared speculatively at the outdoor swimming pool and tennis court, strolled through the ivory-tinted living room, the pinkish dining room, the bedroom suites...
...book's author, Gaston B. Means, was once a Secret Service investigator for the Department of Justice. Born in North Carolina about 45 years ago, he began his career as a detective at ten when he rode about the county eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He entered the William J. Burns ("Eye That Never Sleeps") Detective Agency in 1910 as an undercover man. He served Captain Boy-Ed, German spy, for $1,000 per week. In 1917 he was tried for murdering a client, Mrs. Maude C. King; was acquitted. When in 1921 Burns became chief...
With a full realization of these hardships Diony Hall and Berk Jarvis, somewhat indifferent to the news of fighting in New England, and a Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia but possessing a strong love for each other, set their backs resolutely on the civilization of their youth and rode forth into the promised land. Their adventures on the trail, their life among the rugged Titans who held the frontier forts against the redmen and the King's men, the pain, toil, and rewards, which they shared alike with their neighbors, form the theme of Miss Robert's narrative...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., Phil Weidman, custodian of a new $1,500,000 court house, found its corridors too long, rode about the building on an old bicycle...
...great, clattering coach Mr. and Mrs. Cinderella rode to Holyrood Palace, lorded it over dukes and earls for 10 splendiferous days, ate and drank with homely dignity things they had never dreamed existed, and then went back to their cottage literally among the cinders. Soon afterward the Labor Government fell, and it looked as though Cinderella times were over for Mrs. Brown and "Jamie...