Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...festival Storm Troopers and cavalry lined the street from the Colsman house to the church. Between rode Herr Colsman. wife and nine boys. The cheering hushed for a minute while the three newest Colsmans were baptized. The Nazi Press hailed Frau Colsman's triplets as a Nazi achievement...
Congressman Eddie Crump, "the Red Snapper of Tennessee." who "rode into town at the age of 18 on a bull calf." and remained to become the city's benevolent despot, absolutely controls all city and county offices. Negro Boss is big Bob Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma...
...both in this country and abroad to show the dangers which are latent in a mob. To forestall this eventuality the police were instructed to prevent any gathering from taking place. So, whenever a group gathered, in the streets, the police first told them to move on, and then rode their horses up on the sidewalk. Naturally, some of the methods were rather brutal land some unjust arrests were made. No one was, however, obligated to come to City Square and certainly no one was required to stay; indeed, it should be remembered that one's presence at such...
Omaha's Johnny Goodman, who had come a long way since he rode to his first tournament blind baggage seven years ago, was teamed with Lawson Little of San Francisco. Semifinalist in last year's National Amateur, Golfer Little is accustomed to playing in the world's far corners, having learned the game while his father was an army officer stationed in Tientsin. Opposing Little and Goodman were huge Cyril Tolley and Roger Wethered. That match was won on the first tee when Little stepped up to the ball and lined a drive 30 demoralizing yards farther...
Near Miles City, Mont., Cowboy Mike Vial roped a steer, got his right wrist and left thumb caught in his lasso. Mike Vial got his thumb free, but the cavorting steer almost pulled his right hand off. To free himself, Mike Vial finished the job with his jackknife, rode to a hospital. Said he to attendants: "You can tell 'em the yearling cut my hand off, but it didn't get me out of the saddle...