Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open tonneau, the President and his closest advisers held elbow-to-elbow conferences. He urged Secretary Ickes to get up steam behind the new Civil Works program. With General Johnson he discussed 25 codes which the NRAdministrator had brought from Washington to be signed. When Acting Secretary Morgenthau rode beside the President, the wind wobbling both their pince-nez, the talk was of the Administration's embattled monetary program. Toward sundown the President would drive his guests up to his tight little white frame cottage on Pine Mountain to continue their discussions over the dinner table...
...utter disgust at the behavior of the Chamber of Deputies last week doughty old Premier Albert ("Tomcat") Sarraut exclaimed, "The financial hemorrhage continues!" Few hours later he rode off to present the resignation of his four-week-old Cabinet to President Albert Lebrun...
...fast mount go hellbent for speed with a prayer that he would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick A. Aherne on the chestnut gelding Gallowglass. He was out for speed and he went like a whirlwind, but Gallowglass took that as no excuse for sloppiness. He cleared each of the nine barriers with inches to spare, finished without a fault...
...girl who rode a bicycle into the Adams House Dining Hall on Saturday, during the supper hour, in full blaze of the electric skylight...
...were held. Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show...