Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn crop was estimated at less than one-fourth of normal. Carloads of cattle too emaciated for slaughter were shipped to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia for fattening. Other thousands were slaughtered for canning, but neither of these methods could take care of the numbers laid low by the drought. Cowboys rode out on the ranges, began shooting down starved animals at the rate of 1,000 head...
...wicker basket aboard a hearse the body of John Dillinger rode home last week from Chicago's morgue to Mooresville, Ind. There it was dressed in a light suit, fitted into a $165 coffin, and taken to his sister's bungalow outside Indianapolis. During the night 2,500 mourners filed past all that was left of the year's worst killer...
...Duke of Buccleuch wriggled his lean limbs into an archer's uniform of woodland green. So did all the Scottish aristocrats of the Royal Company of Archers, of whom the Duke is Captain-General. They filled their quivers with silver-barbed arrows, stepped into their limousines and rode to Holyrood Palace, there to guard King George and Queen Mary who had come up for Scotland's yearly "drawing room...
...week Benito Mussolini hustled down the steps of his Villa Tor-Ionia in Rome, popped into his Alfa-Romeo and scorched southward deep into the malarial marshes of the Pontine. A motorcade of 200 cars pursued him bearing officials and newshawks most of whom wrote that night "Today I rode with Mussolini." Suddenly Il Duce's car slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice by begetting...
Popular with his soldiers as an old shoe that has proved its worth, he got a send-off such as few commanders have rated. After the fall of Belgrade, when the army was being demobilized, Eugene rode quietly away in his dusty brown coat. Behind him his veterans raised a spontaneous ditty which soon all Austria was singing: "Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter . . ." ("Prince Eugene the noble Knight"). His career had been a success; he had shown the world. But he got no rest on his hard-won laurels. He was over 70 when for the last time...