Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor made a point of appearing at all public functions, where he was received with honor. The best restaurants dined him and his dogs Bummer and Lazarus free. He rode as an honored guest on coastwise steamship lines, at tended in a front row seat all sessions of the Legislature at Sacramento. Few were heartless enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under...
...which won him praise and honors but never affection. Sniffing heresy in every act of tolerance, he died with a scrap of verse in his pocket which urged judges and churchmen to guard against "such as do a toleration hatch." The galleries also included portraits of Edward Rawson who rode clattering through High Street, Boston, to announce the accession of James II to the Throne of England, the Rev. John Davenport, friend of Cotton Mather, famed for his "ejaculatory prayers" and the Rev. Joint Bailey who died seeing his Savior and murmuring to his wife, "Oh, what shall...
...years ago, British galleries jeered Cotton for not joining the Ryder Cup team the previous year because rules compelled him to travel with his teammates. Last week he rode on the shoulders of the crowd from the last green to the clubhouse. There he learned that Englishmen Brews and Padgham had finished second and third...
...rattled down the Denver & Salt Lake, switched off on the new Dotsero Cutoff to Denver & Rio Grande Western's main line into Salt Lake City. Next day the Governors of Colorado and Utah, the Mayors of Denver and Salt Lake, six railroad presidents and several thousand rejoicing citizens rode out on a fleet of trains, shuttled back & forth over the Cutoff, held a mighty barbecue, drove ceremonial silver spikes. Running time for passenger trains between Denver and Salt Lake City over this newest transcontinental line had been cut a good eight hours...
...into a Japanese limousine and whizzed off, leaving Emperor Kang Teh standing at the station. This, for a proper sovereign, would be the ultimate indignity, but the Puppet Emperor did not seem to mind. While the Japanese crowd rushed off to cheer Chichibu at the Japanese Embassy, the Emperor rode back to his palace. Hospitality to Chichibu included dinners and a military review during which both may have conversed in English, the only language they have in common...