Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue mess jacket and his jokes all in order, Edward of Wales rode down London's Birdcage Walk one night last week to Wellington Barracks to drink a sherry apéritif, eat a dinner with the officers of the Welsh Guards of which he is colonel. With the walnuts, the port was set before him and passed clockwise. Everybody rose to drink the King's health in port, after which it was permissible to smoke...
Pawson got a cramp, walked for two miles, sighed and stopped. Henigan dropped out after 17 mi. and rode the rest of the route in an automobile. For 10 mi., over the long Newton hills, Kelley and Komonen held their lead together, Kelley gaining a few steps as they plodded up, Komonen gaining a few as they coasted down the other side. At Boston College Komonen pulled ahead. He had trained for the race by running 15 mi. a day on snowshoes. At Coolidge Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between...
...William Wallace McDowell buckled on a very clean collar, put a silk hat on his head, took up his papers and went forth to present his credentials from President Roosevelt to George V. The two men never met. Governor General Buckley continued to read the papers while Minister McDowell rode behind a clattering cavalry escort to present himself to scrawny President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Chief Croupier" of the New Deal, is "essentially the product of four very important factors: a good family, a good digestion, a good education and a bad illness." The revolution in U. S. political psychology that rode him into power in 1932 had been coming a long time. "Theodore Roosevelt, who knew little or nothing of economics, sensed it; Woodrow Wilson, who knew little or nothing of finance, strove to anticipate it; the World War attempted to postpone it; Harding and Coolidge tried to destroy it, and Hoover to ignore it. ... Roosevelt is simply a symptom...
Lily Pons drank from a nursing bottle, Rosa Ponselle rode a bicycle, big Lauritz Melchior, forgetting he was the world's greatest Wagnerian tenor, dressed up like Salome with painted toenails. Because the Metropolitan Opera Company is again desperately hard up it was giving its third Opera Surprise Party. New Yorkers paid $14,000 and laughed three hours to see the expensive singers without wigs or dignity...