Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from within the walls of the Forbidden City, was the "Death by 10,000 Slices" or some other ingenious execution. The dog, regarded with religious awe by Chinese masses, was as much a mystery to them as to foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were suckled by waiting-women whose own girl...
...still rode bulbously about the land last week. It created hundreds of miscellaneous news items. In Chicago Patrolman John Shannon arrested two men as "Reds" when he heard them argue about it. In Roseland, Manhattan dance hall, a new dance was named after it. In Chicago was formed the Technocratic Party of the U. S., sponsored by the sponsors of the Anti-Rodeo League and the Mental Patients Defenders' Association. But more importantly...
Jockey Gilbert, 18, and Jockey Hank Mills, 17, who finished the season with 196 winners, erroneously credited Jockey Gilbert witha record, because he had ridden more winners than Jockey Lee Hardy in 1927 (207). In 1908, Jockey Vincent Powers, now trainer of Mrs. Payne Whitney's steeplechasers, rode 324 winners. Jockey Walter Miller, stable rider for the late James R. Keene, famed for his skill in handling mounts at the barrier, won 388 races...
...wild-riding cavalryman, Persia's self-made "King of Kings," Reza Shah Pahlevi, who seized the Throne in 1925, is now the horsiest of ruling monarchs. Last week he left a crisis to attend a horse race. While frightened Persian ministers wrung their hands in Teheran, the Shah rode out of his capital and over the Elburz Mountains to see a show he never misses, the annual contest of swift, sleek Turkoman steeds in his native province, Mazanderan. Despising effete blue ribbons, scorning silver loving cups, the "King of Kings" rewarded winning riders with handfuls of big, soft gold...
...that is retrospective in the novel. It is by this method that he rises to respectable heights in description of historic events and persons; the best example of this is the picture drawn of the huddled, broken figure of Wilson beside the hale and hearty Harding as they rode down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol on March 4, 1921. Mr. Anonymous has made the mistake of including in his book too much that is purely personal, too much that sounds like the "Locomotive God." He is not an Austrian princess, and there is little in his experiences with sex which...