Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Minor Blackford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, kissed his wife goodbye, grabbed his double-barreled shotgun, mounted his "very fine roan" and rode out of Lynchburg, Va. one morning in June...
Pennsylvanians, though, were "very loyal to the 'old flag.' ... I rode through [Chambersburg] with General Kemper, at the head of his brigade. The windows and porches were filled with women who were covered with flags, and each one had a flag, waving it over our troops as they passed. . . . The men exercised forbearance and seldom replied, but [one said] to a very bold-looking girl . . . with a great flag pinned and hanging over her shoulders and over her bosom: 'Look here, Miss, you'd better take that flag off! . These old rebs are hell on breastworks...
...Queen Elizabeth, which also docked in Manhattan last week, 24 hours late, rode out the storm a little better: most of her passengers managed to keep their chins up, dancing and playing squash while the Queen climbed the mountainous waves and slipped majectically into the Atlantic's troughs...
Last week the dervish spirit was astir again in Khartoum. So was the Mahdi's son. Sir Sayed Abdul Rahman Mohamed Ahmed El Mahdi Pasha lacked his father's messianic complex. But he rode the wave of nationalism that was surging from North Africa to Indonesia. Sir Sayed threatened a second jihad if Egypt won its demand for outright annexation of the Sudan (now an Anglo-Egyptian condomimium...
...rode tiptoed to fame (and royal favor) as a ballet dancer. One night, when he was over 60, big-nosed, silken-bearded King Leopold II saw Cléo dance at the opera in Paris. He held up the show for half an hour while he talked to her in the lobby. Next day the town was buzzing...