Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five men in a black sedan who demanded $100,000 ransom. Arguing with their captors as they drove hither & yon, Mr. & Mrs. Collins got the demand down to $5,000. She was released to telephone to Chairman James B. Forgan Jr. of Second Security Bank, while Banker Collins rode on in the black sedan. Banker Collins was later released, failed to say whether or not ransom was paid...
Governor Roosevelt got his first red-hot reception at Seattle. From 75,000 throats roared forth a boisterous welcome as he rode through the streets with Mayor John Dore, nominal Republican, who declared: "President Hoover is a menace." Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill quickly squeezed himself close to the man whose nomination at Chicago he had helped engineer. Visiting a hospital for crippled children, lame Governor Roosevelt sympathized: "It's a little difficult for me to stand on my feet...
...girl on horseback rode into Baton Rouge one day last week, driving nine head of cattle before her. She drove them into the campus of Louisiana State University and turned them over to the authorities. President James Monroe Smith of the University had announced that farm produce would be accepted in lieu of cash for tuition. She was Elena Percy, 17, of West Feliciana Parish. She wanted to be a freshman. She was accepted...
...that most handsome and eligible of contemporary Princetonians, Harold McCormick. The newspapers called her the Princess of Standard Oil. He was the Prince of International Harvester. She was a demure little blonde, with a high forehead, grey eyes and a mass of ringlets under her hat. She swam, skated, rode a horse and bicycle, but preferred to read and study. The newspapers wrote of a regal wedding but actually it was a quiet, private ceremony in a parlor of Manhattan's old Buckingham Hotel. The first two years of their life together were spent in the quiet little river town...
...Shelly, 76, swung on to his horse, fixed a shiny oldtime stovepipe hat on his head, put a perky cigar in his mouth, and posed for a moment. Except for frock coat and saddle medicine bags, that was the way he rode into Mulvane 52 years ago, a year after its founding. Laughed he last week: "I had 45? in my pocket then." Now he has a big house in Mulvane, a wife and four children (the son is Dr. Hargus Gerard Shelly, 51, of Wichita), and a practice which still requires night calls...