Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot upon Brazilian soil. Upwards of 150,000 Brazilians vented few cheers, but clapped their hands in delight at the sight of the President of the U. S. and their own President Getulio Dornellas Vargas appearing so democratically, side by side in ordinary business suits, as they rode through the city with a motorcycle escort. Even President Vargas was startled by the U. S. President's democratic manners, when in spite of a heavy mist rapidly turning to rain, Franklin Roosevelt asked to have the top of their car lowered the better to see and be seen. "Comme...
...called "New Deal Cabinet" of Socialist Premier Léon Blum. Over and over they hurled charges of which the most effective was the weekly Gringoire's incessant repetition that during the War the present Minister of the Interior, Roger Salengro, deserted from the front-line trenches and rode off into Germany on a bicycle...
...Mack Garner, 36, one of four famed jockey brothers (others: Guy, Lambert, Wayne ["Skeets"]), rider of the 1934 Kentucky Derby winner Cavalcade; of a heart attack, after riding in four races and bringing in one winner at River Downs (formerly Coney Island) ; in Covington, Ky. In 22 years he rode more than 2,000 winners, earned $2,425,320 for the owners of his mounts...
...dimming of old passions, had been stripped of political power for a generation. Of the 355 parading oldsters, whose average age was 92, only 170 crickety survivors of the mighty march of 1883 were able to hobble along at a funeral pace under their own power. The rest rode in automobiles. Bulking far larger than veterans in the parade and in Washington Hotel lobbies were the proud, full-bosomed Ladies of the G. A. R., Daughters of Union Veterans and members of its Women's Relief Corps. As prime beneficiaries of Civil War pensions, veterans' wives and daughters...
...Spain is unlike any previous struggle, with factors of which the Duke of Wellington never dreamed, such as fighting planes from technically neutral countries. For every German with Generalissimo Franco there seemed to be a Russian with Premier Largo Caballero. The newly arrived Soviet Ambassador Comrade Marcel Rosenberg rode about Madrid importantly in a Cadillac limousine while the Red Militia cracked out executions. Nevertheless, with Generalissimo Franco's forces advancing on Madrid at a rate of five miles per day, another White army under Colonel Juan Yague captured the former Red Militia General Staff Headquarters at Santa Olalla after...