Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benny Foulois rode his bicycle into New York from Washington, Conn. He wanted to join the Navy. Finding no Navy recruiting station, unable to get into the merchant marine, he enlisted in the Engineer Corps. He rose from the ranks, was a Signal Corps lieutenant in 1908. The first Army man to be taught to fly by Orville Wright, he was assigned to operate the Army's first plane, which he flew after 90 minutes of instruction. During the War he was chief of the A. E. F. air service...
Mortician Hoffman put up a canopy at the grave, at each corner a blue floodlight operated by storage batteries. (Few cemeteries have electric light wires through them.) The 400 mourners rode up in 93 automobiles and four sets of headlights were aimed to give further illumination...
Having no intention of landing in England, whence he has been twice barred on grounds of moral turpitude, Harry Kendall Thaw rode into Southampton on the S. S. Europa. A delegation of immigration authorities boarded the ship, marched up to Mr. Thaw, told him he might not set foot on shore. Said he: "I am going to Germany, which is much more interesting, and after that to Czechoslovakia, where I shall be a guest of my friend, President Masaryk...
...drove with President Loubet in 1905; bits of the other bomb that killed a dozen bystanders and soldiers on his wedding day, splattered himself and his bride with blood. There is also a revolver. That revolver was fired at him repeatedly by one Sanchez Alegre as Alfonso rode through the streets of Madrid. The King wheeled, rode the assassin down under his horse's hoofs with a shout...
Clad in pink coat, white breeks and shining boots, Cinemacter Charles Chaplin rode out with the Duke of Westminster at Envermeu, France to hunt wild boar. Presently a boar broke cover, but there was no chase. The boar charged the comedian. When they were 100 ft. apart, someone else in the party brought the beast down with a rifle-bullet. That night Mr. Chaplin ate boar, declaring he liked it better on the platter than on the hoof. Next day, after several sessions with a masseur to ease limbs strained by his perilous riding, he cancelled a trip...