Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon Edward and Mrs. Simpson made off to England as soon as they could and last week "were holding their ground. Candidate for honors as ''the Englishman who most dislikes Mrs. Simpson" is the detective who was assigned to escort her on her flight to France. He rode in a speeding, zigzagging Buick for some 23 hours with the exasperated, nerve-racked American whose lover was about to abdicate, and who kept telling the detective he was a stupid Scotland Yard flatfoot, had not been smart enough to enable her to give reporters the slip...
Having satisfied the President of his liberality, Alfred Murrah last week took his oath in Oklahoma City as the nation's youngest Federal Judge. He rode into Oklahoma City 18 years ago in a box car, was booted off by a brakeman, worked his way through high school and State University, set himself up in law practice. Aged 33, he promised solemnly to retire...
...season, Wes Fesier's five one of the best in Crimson history, will not be playing for the League championship in these closing games; for the great Penn team, which twice edged Harvard in the hardest tests it has faced all season, clinched the League championship Sturday as they rode roughshod over the Cornell team before 5000 howling supporters in Philadelphia...
...Adams quintet rode smoothly over Kirkland, 16-5, while Eliot nosed out Leverett by the tremendous score of 6-4. Dudley and Dunster decided not to play that day, and defaulted to Lowell and Winthrop, respectively...
...legitimacy. What with Sophie's suspicious enmity and Franz Joseph's fond indulgence, it would have been a miracle if Sisi had turned out to be a model wife and mother. No miracle occurred. Left to her own devices, she smoked (very fast for those days), rode horseback till patient Franzi grumbled: "If only you had never seen a saddle!", exercised and dieted herself into an alarming slimness. And one day she told Franz Joseph she simply had to go away. Hurt but anxious, he let her go. After that she hardly came home except for visits...