Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the War Department had long been preparing.* In their wake came five small tanks, a fleet of trucks. Bayonets glittered in the sun, equipment clanked over the pavement as the force marched slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Reaching the "affected area" (4:45 p. m.) troopers rode straight into the hooting, booing ranks of the B. E. F. Veterans scrambled out of the way of swinging sabres, trampling hoofs. Steel-helmeted infantrymen with drawn revolvers advanced 20 abreast. Behind them came others with rifles lowered, bayonets prodding...
Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...
...gold British sovereigns, one dated 1901, the other 1912, plinked to the mucky deck of the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (artiglio = talon) last week as she rode off Brest, France. The sovereigns were but a tender of what the next clutch of the Artiglio IPs five-clawed dredge was to raise from the "treasure" ship Egypt 400 ft. below. The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns. The Italian crew went hysterical. "Gold! Gold!" they howled. They screamed, wept, embraced. Three years of painstaking, hazardous marine engineering...
...Glaneur, then the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase on Mrs. Ambrose Clark's Madrigal II. There was only one thing to diminish Jockey Bostwick's satisfaction at having equalled such a celebrated record. He had done it once before. Two weeks ago at Belmont Park, L. I., he rode...
Thomas Hitchcock's Silverskin in a steeplechase, Latin Stables' Ha Ha in a flat race, won with both. For the last four years, young Pete Bostwick has been the leading amateur jockey in the U. S. Two years ago, in England, he rode ten winners out of 25 mounts. Now 22, he began to ride at 7. His first teacher was his famed aunt, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, "mother of U. S. polo." Another teacher was his uncle. F. Ambrose Clark, who still drives a coach & four at Westbury, L. I. and goes abroad every year to hunt...