Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocratic Miss Sears once hiked alone from the Burlingame Country Club to Hotel Del Monte-over 100 miles-escorted by a motorcade of sport-loving friends. It was a record-breaking hike. During the same season (about 1911) Miss Sears kept up a stable of polo ponies and rode on the polo fields around Burlingame-greatly admired in athletic circles of the Pacific Coast country clubs...
...newly formed first line, with Jimmy Mills at center, Bob Cooke on the left, and Danny Badger on the right, rode the tide of fortune against Princeton last week, but was held in check by St. Nicks. With Bill Moore just out of the hospital, Bob Cooke playing on the first line, reserve lines will probably find Moore and Childs sharing pivot duties, with Pillsbury and Nagel on the right and Gagarin and Nagel to the left. Against newly formed lines the Harvard seconds and thirds should shine...
Before and after her luncheon at the White House, the Cosmetics Queen visited U. S. cosmetics factories with a view to buying some $100,000 worth of factory equipment. The traveling belts on which the jars of powder and perfume rode from worker to worker, floor to floor, particularly fascinated her. "Our women," she said, "can afford to pay as much for cosmetics as American women. Even our men are shaving more regularly and taking up the use of toilet water...
...last week there had never been a Japanese election in which the party favored by the Government failed to win. After ten years of this, popular apathy was such that in the present general election campaign many candidates rode out to rural constituencies to find the halls hired for their speeches quite empty...
...things: gold and news from home. The transport of both at fabulous rates became the expressman's job.† That they go through, come hell or highwayman, became almost his religion. At first carried by foot, horse, skis, dogsled, rowboat or river steamer, the treasure and mail eventually rode almost exclusively in the famed Concord stages, the first of which reached San Francisco June...