Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floes. The dogs understood no Norwegian, the men knew no Eskimo except ilik (right) and iuh (left). Reversing Eliza, the men jumped from floe to floe, dragged the dogs by main force, assembled 53 animals. But as soon as unchained, the dogs leaped for the drifting floe on which rode the supply of whale meat. One dog, too stiff-legged to leap, was left...
Unscheduled was the sudden sputter and stopping of his engine. He slanted his biplane toward the ground looking for an open space, saw only the regimented houses of Chicago suburbs. With his hand frozen to the stick, he rode the wind into a suburban street, ripped into telephone wires, stripping the plane's wings. The fuselage dropped lightly to the ground. Pilot, notes and aerometeorograph were undamaged. Next dawn he was at work again above Chicago, since the Weather Bureau lets its airplane observation contracts on condition that pilots have two planes with instruments always ready...
Thus bouncing around on the trunk rack the would-be assassin of the next President rode first to the hospital to unload his victims, then to Miami's skyscraper jail where he was stripped and safely locked up on the 21st floor...
...Prince. 73, Boston banker, board chairman of Chicago's Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.; by Arthur H. Mason. 63, trainer and seller of polo ponies and hunters; for $50,000 damages on a charge that after a 1929 polo game at the Myopia Hunt Club in which Mason rode Prince off the ball, Prince, cursing, swatted Mason behind the left ear with his mallet...
...Mountain States had something to talk about in the death of the amazing Bonfils, the "Desperate Desmond" of Western journalism, the swaggering, handsome gambler who blew into town after the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 with the Hotel Windsor's amiable bartender, Harry H. Tammen; who rode to power astride the Denver Post which he imbued with his own traits of boldness, flamboyance, unscrupulousness...