Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...
Behemoth has been laid low by the jaw bone of an ass. Two days ago the Democrats rode to victory over the Republicans on the issues of prohibition and the business depression. They were good talking points. The triumph carries with it great significance: The people may not have proved a Democratic supremacy in the Senate, but they have voiced dissatisfaction with President Hoover and they have launched a preliminary attack on the eighteenth amendment...
Tailcoat fluttering, dressed as he thought Paul Revere dressed, one David H. Oakes last week rode an old grey mare out of Boston along the course of his model's famed gallop. He rode slowly, through a drizzling rain. Upon the old grey mare flapped a banner lettered: AROUSE CITIZENS! VOTE "NO" ON NOVEMBER 4! Instead of shouting "The British are coming!" this 1930 Paul Revere stopped in each town to hand out a few manifestoes arguing against repeal of the Massachusetts Prohibition Enforcement Act in next week's State referendum. It began: "Hear ye, all people...
Stuart was a fine figure of a man, just under six feet, big-boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season...
Pecos Bill, who roamed the Southwest. Pattern of all cowboy hell-raisers, he was so tough he rode a catamount, used a rattlesnake as quirt...