Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wellesley Dance--Among the appealing invitations issued to us was the one coming from Wellesley College. Under the efficient management of Rod Willoughby, transportation via chartered city bus was arranged and a load of fifty-four singing midshipmen rode out. Held at Severance Hall, the canned music and punch bowl vied with the terrace walk in popularity...
...both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society." "No Hush-Hush Peace." Dewey en trained for Louisville, making two plat form appearances on the way, at Rich mond and Indianapolis. Neither had been advertised in advance; the crowds that turned out were small. In Louisville, Dewey rode through almost empty streets to the Brown Hotel...
...sprung continued to bump into our lines around Mons. An American MP directing traffic during the night discovered that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...
Pimpernel plus Superman. In his bearing and behavior, small (125 lbs.), stooped Mosby resembled a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Superman. Against the enemy his unvarying rule was to do what was least expected of him. When he rode, his cape "was turned back always in a flow of scarlet. A curling ostrich plume extended over his shoulder from a gray felt hat, and at each side hung a large Colt revolver, suspended in holsters well studded with brass." He was always kind to women & children...