Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moon rode high and bright over Turkey one night last week as Islam downed its evening meal. The peasants in the little villages finished their last prostrations toward Mecca, and went out for a breath of the sharp night. Suddenly someone bit a piece out of the moon. The peasants knew instantly what that meant...
...past 9 o'clock, the battle went to the dragon, until it seemed that he had indeed consumed the moon. Then a little sliver of moon swung into sight. The peasants redoubled their firing. The dragon yielded up still more moon. At 10:21 the moon once more rode high and bright over Islam. The peasants, on whom Dictator Kamal Ataturk has forced such civilized behavior as wearing derbies and unveiling their women, felt better...
...know how they learned to read." (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934.) Last summer Mary Belle Spencer Jr was found lying unconscious beside outer Lake Shore Drive in brassiere and short at 2 a. m. Revived, she explained that she had fallen off a horse which she frequently rode in brassiere and shorts at 2 a. m. Since a lower court ordered the Spencer girls to school, their prosperous parent have sent them to fashionable Starret School. Last week's case, which concerned only the past truancy of Mary Belle, now past school age, came to Criminal Court on the Spencers...
...dusk on the night before Christmas Sara, in her grandfather's lap, rode across to La Fayette Square in the big Presidential limousine full of Roosevelts. From her place of honor she stared back at the holiday crowd while Grandfather Frank-lin lighted Washington's National Community Christmas Tree, but she paid more attention to the flashlights of photographers than she did to grandpaternal words of holiday cheer...
...reported. The one meeting she refused was an interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Finally she went to Russia, rode on a propaganda train with Kalinin, talked to Lenin, listened to Trotsky. Going home that time, second class, was an anticlimax: "Hungry gluttonous people fell upon the good food wolfishly. The ship swiftly split up into the goods and the bads. The bads had a good time and the goods talked about...