Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moved to Oxford and he went to school there. At 13 he began a series of solo bicycle tours, made a large collection of brass-rubbings from old monuments in country churches. At 16 he broke a leg wrestling with another boy at school. He said nothing about it, rode home at the end of the day on a bicycle. He has never grown since. (He is 5 ft. 5½ in.) He took no interest in sports "because they were organized, because they had rules, because they had results." When he won a scholarship at Jesus College (partial...
...Chaliapin lives in France where last summer he made a cinema of Don Quixote in French and English. The picture was taken in mountainlands high above Nice and the natives are still talking about the rueful old man who rode about on a ribby white horse which he insisted on flitting each day. In his U. S. concerts Chaliapin will sing three songs written for his cinema by Jacques Ibert, pupil of Maurice Ravel...
With $1,000,000 pledged in advance, Banker Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman for the second year of New York City's Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, formally opened its $15,000,000 drive. His business & professional sub-committees working smoothly. Chairman Gibson went home to his Long Island estate, rode out on a foxhunt, collided with a hanging tree branch. Blood streaming down his face, he hurried to a physician, had the wound stitched up, finished the hunt...
...Kerrville, Tex., when Eleanor Allen rode a horse into a soft, cistern the girl was saved with a ladder, the horse removed by filling the cistern, floating...
...King Richard II" was put on the boards on the Bankside, with a double moral for its time. The audience beheld the tyranny of Hereford, while Essex took the hint from the king who lost a crown by intriguing in Ireland. In February 1601, with three hundred followers, he rode again to the palace gates, but this time the queen was ready. The last act of Essex's tragedy confirmed the poet's prophesy...