Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When this story reached Elliott, he got on a high horse, rode off in all directions. To the U.P., he said that Newsweek had erred because it "does not carry the story in full." He accused U.S. Embassy officials of a "put-up job." To the A.P. he exculpated the Embassy. Meanwhile Ambassador Bedell Smith had reported Elliott's remarks to Washington...
...offering their paper to President Wilson and George Creel for the U.S. cause, the Ridders rode out the war, while five of their seven German-language competitors folded. But they were convinced that there was no future in the foreign-language press, since most immigrants wanted to learn English. In 1926 the Ridders bought the New York Journal of Commerce and the feeble (circ. 12,000) Long Island Daily Press in Jamaica...
Naturally enough, the loudest hurrahs came from the Republicans. In New York, as everyone had predicted, it was Tom Dewey by a mile; in Pennsylvania it was James Duff who rode in on the Martin ticket; in Connecticut, James L. McConaughy, onetime college president; in Michigan, racket-busting Kim Sigler; in California, Earl Warren, who had both parties' nominations. In Kansas it was veteran congressional tax expert Frank Carlson in a walk (despite his tacit support of the state's anomalous bone-dry law) over repeal-minded Harry Hines Woodring...
Baltimore fans cheered; next day the fans cheered again when Arcaro rode Cosmic Missile to win the $15,000-added Marguerite Stakes. Then Arcaro returned to the irreverent New York tracks, where he is booed whether he wins or loses. Booing Arcaro is part of the fun of attending horse races in New York. Fans holler out cracks about his oversized ears and long nose ("Banana Nose!" they shout). Says he: "The damn fools don't know what they're booing about ... of course I don't like it-I'm human...
...girl from drowning off a Chicago beach. She turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...