Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirt, and was greeted mainly by hisses & jeers. He made several futile attempts to connect with the bull, evidently trying to save his handsome cow-pony from being gored, and finally retired from the ring, with pandemonium at his heels. . . . He finally returned and with scarcely any delay rode straight at the bull, who was meeting him half way. In this contact the pony was gored in the chest section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull. . . . At no time was Pickett on the bull's back nor did he ever...
Exhilarated by victory, De Bruyn took a shower, dined, bowled for an hour, danced till midnight, then rode home to Manhattan on a day coach to be on time for his job of stoking a furnace in the Hotel Wellington. He explained how he trained: by running from home to work (15 mi.) several times a week; by running around the boiler room of the Hotel Wellington; by running up & down its 26 flights of backstairs...
Destry Rides Again (Universal). Tom Mix rode a horse in the Spanish-American War long enough to get shot in the mouth. Subsequently he took minor roles in minor skirmishes with Chinese, Mexicans, Boers. For a time he served as a U. S. deputy marshal in Colorado. In 1910, when moving pictures were still flickering violently, he was offered $150 a week to appear in Selig films. Followed, mostly for Fox, some 180 Wild Westerns with 100 more or less leading ladies playing opposite him. Actor Mix retired from screen work in 1926, traveled abroad with his horse, returned...
...Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when he had a church in Mexico City, and Rear Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage, U. S. N. Retired. It was on Admiral Burrage's Memphis that Col. Lindbergh triumphantly rode home from France after his 1927 flight. The three Norfolkers made a secret journey to Hopewell and it was then that their identity was discovered by the prying Press. Back in Norfolk. Preacher Dobson-Peacock bemoaned the fact that the story had leaked out, feared that it might impede the recovery...
...came from the Wild West circus organized in 1906 by the first Col. Miller's three sons, George, Joe & Zack. The troupe comprised some 1,400 cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, Cossacks, animal trainers, 600 horses, hundreds of wild animals. Cinemactor Mix and Funnyman Rogers got their start there. Col. Joe rode in a saddle set with 246 diamonds. Gems glittered in the neckties and on the fingers of the other brothers. In 1914 the show closed. When it reopened in 1924 interest in the Wild West was dead. For seven more years the 101 show played, losing money. Col. Joe Miller...