Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Providence, May 4--Harvard's Varsity Tennis team rode roughshod over Brown here this afternoon, losing only three of the 20 sets played to the home team...
Refreshed by three years as well-paid president of the Maryland Casualty Co., politically sagacious Silliman Evans, 43, who left the vice-presidency of American Airways in 1932 to run Vice President Garner's Presidential boom and then rode the Roosevelt bandwagon into the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalcy, last fortnight announced himself as the new publisher of the Nashville Tennessean whose evening and Sunday editions compete with the Banner. Behind capable Publisher Evans' roly-poly person loomed the paternal bulk of huge Jesse Jones and the RFC (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et seq.) whose interest in the Tennessean...
...everyone remembers, La Guardia rode into office on a Fusion ticket made up of three factions: the independent Democrats who were more interested in rescuing the city from its financial plight caused by the plunder of the Walker regime and the depression; a large body of voters of Italian origin; and the Republicans. There were two other entries in the field; Mayor O'Brien carried the torch for Tammany and tried to look comfortable in a top hat, but the Scabury investigations, the Walker abdication, and the forthright disavowal of their cause by Mr. Roosevelt as Governor had discredited...
...Pole Ridge. Little Bas Younger, the current he-coon, got licked in an argument in front of the courthouse, and that night his opponent's house burned down. Squire Whiting was getting ready to turn over the county to his successor, but he wanted things shipshape, so he rode out to Hoop Pole Ridge and shot Little Bas. The inhabitants of the Ridge let Little Bas lie. Said one of them to the heir apparent, "I reckon you air the he-coon, now?" "Yep," said...
...driver waved him a cheery salute. Back waved King Christian, and at that moment his horse, young and excitable, suddenly reared, fell down. Beneath the horse one of the King's legs was pinioned and anxious bystanders rushed to help. With a tight-lipped grin King Christian remounted, rode back to Amalienborg Castle as though nothing had happened. That evening, none the worse for his fall, he entertained at dinner...