Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback to see a train for the first time in their lives, rode the new railway on "shuttle excursions" up & clown the line...
...Emory Andrus at 93 last week, the best the Press could do was to identify him as the "millionaire straphanger." Indeed the Press never heard of the financier-philanthropist until he was past 60. And then it spotted him, a shy, parsimonious, white-bearded old gentleman, because he always rode the subway to his Manhattan office until he was 86. A few oldsters remembered that the First Citizen of Yonkers, N. Y. had served four consecutive terms in the House of Representatives a quarter century...
...Crimson in its first 1935 game Peter Jay '36 and Edward H. Gerry '36 were at the number 1 position, while A. Townsend Winmill '37 and Henry A. Gerry '36 rode at number 2 and number 8 respectively...
...Willard Hotel one evening last week rode President Roosevelt to sit with Cabinet members, Senators, newspapermen, miscellaneous bigwigs, hear his New Deal joshed at the semi-annual stag dinner of the Gridiron Club. Far more interested was Washington in the doings of 500 official and newspaper women left behind. Mrs. Roosevelt had invited them to a masquerade party?first in the White House since President Tyler entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant...
...year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode . . . thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone grinders . . . sold to the farmers to manure their lands...