Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Governor Curley arrived in Washington last week to accompany President Roosevelt to Harvard's Tercentenary, well knowing that in this election year the New Deal would have to be nice to him. He rode back to Boston on the President's special, addressed the dripping crowd in Harvard Yard (see p. 22), calling attention to the fact that Grover Cleveland honored Harvard's 250th Anniversary, Franklin Roosevelt her 300th. "Naturally both of them Democrats," added the Governor leering at Franklin Roosevelt...
...Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without suppressions or inhibitions; they threw their Christmas tree out the window without a word of parental rebuke; they learned life from the transcripts of testimony in Chicago criminal courts; they won beauty contests, rode like Amazons, behaved as they pleased. Since then the Misses Spencer, whose news value is not lessened by the fact that they are two of Chicago's comeliest young girls, have been well publicized by their headline-hunting parent. Last week, Chicago's city editors again splashed Mother and Daughter Mary...
...last week's first-round matches, all played the same afternoon on three fields within easy motoring distance of each other in Long Island's Nassau County, the Hurricanes beat Old Westbury, 11-to-6; Texas nosed out Roslyn, 10-to-9; and Greentree, defending champions, rode rings around Aurora...
...dapper, cheerful, he is married, has a 5-year-old daughter, likes to ski, play tennis. Some years ago he perceived that when a nuclear impact knocks a neutron and a positron out of an electron, there is a mysterious disappearance of energy. He surmised that the excess energy rode away on a little particle which, now generally accepted as theoretically necessary, still eludes observation. It is because of Fermi that this little particle, the neutrino, has an Italian name...
...Claire, Wis., when the Chicago & North Western's mile-a-minute "400" flyer halted briefly, police found Floyd Newman clinging to the locomotive's headlight. Remarked Floyd Newman: "It's the fastest piece of iron I ever rode...