Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Michael Collins was on a tour of inspection of Army barracks in the South of Ireland. He rode in an open touring car and was accompanied by a Rolls-Royce whippet armored car as escort. At Beal-Na- Blath, County Cork, he was ambushed. He immediately ordered his men to return the fire and led the attack on the ambushers personally. During the melee he was fatally wounded and died before he could be removed from the scene. His body was taken to Shanakil Hospital and a guard placed around it. It afterwards came to light that...
...tired, happy party rode back to Manhattan from Washington on the train, a newsman observed a by-product of the trip. Sitting locked in the arms of several Lincoln boys were several Lincoln girls. "We started out with two couples of lovers," nonchalantly explained Principal Baker, ''but now there are at least seven more...
...Coonemessit polo team rode over the Freshmen Saturday to the tune of 9 1/2-5. Burrage and Wilson, in one and two positions, were high scorers for the Freshmen at two goals apiece...
Winning with ease, the Jayvee hoopmen rode to a 60-37 victory over the Boston Boys' Club, last night...
Neither passenger had lost his air-mindedness. Mr. King rode Pennsylvania Airline's blind landing plane from Washington to Pittsburgh two days later. Mr. Bane took a plane home from Newark. Nevertheless, Passenger Bane recalled his maiden flight as "a night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going...