Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single woman, without exception, was raped by the soldiers in occupation. In villages whose occupants had not fled quickly enough, the first action of the Japanese was to rout out the women and have at them; women who fled to grainfields for hiding were forced out by cavalry who rode their horses through the grain fields to trample them and frighten them into appearance...
Depression I finally knocked the props from under Mr. Eaton, washed away his industrial controls. By 1932 he was left with little except his Cleveland securities house, Otis & Co. But Mr. Eaton still rode to hounds. And last week he rode off again to the financial wars...
...Uvalde, Texas, a spry, bowlegged little man with a stubborn back-hair cowlick celebrated his 71st birthday by packing a lunch (including a hunk of birthday cake baked by his wife), rode off after deer. Six days late was John Nance Garner in bagging his annual buck; but he was on time at the hunt campfire, where he dished up his special concoction-"Son-of-a-gun stew," which supposedly includes a dash of everything...
...jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
According to Professor Raymond Moley, the New Deal mounted its economic horse and rode off in all directions about the time accordion-pumping Tommy Corcoran usurped the role of FDR enchanter previously played by guitar-plucking Will Woodin of American Car & Foundry. Woodin economy soon was forgotten, Woodin himself died, but left behind in the Treasury was an American Car & Foundry alumnus, Walter Joseph Cummings. Last week Mr. Cummings was conspicuous for a second time in recent years...