Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit, reporters had to trample their pride to fill up long articles about her. A detective was quoted, describing her eyes. "They are so intense, so animated that you can't catch the exact color." The Globe ran a headline: "'She's So Sweet,' They Said as Mrs. MacArthur Rode By." An eight column headline in the Traveler read: "Mrs. MacArthur Quickly Uses Gift Handbag...
...Hudson River, opposite Yonkers, where he would be outside the scope of big-city police, but still inside the orbit of big-city photographers. His brushes with officialdom had delayed matters ten days past his actual anniversary, but one day last week he climbed into a cab and rode to New Jersey's Teterboro Airport. When he got out, the driver demanded his $8 fare. Macfadden, who had no cash in his jeans, told him to collect later. His airplane pilot also demanded cash, on the ground that after the parachute jump, Macfadden might not be in a position...
Enter Frankie. The Gardner legend flourished-and so did her box-office value. Just 19 months ago Ava ran into Frank Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs (they had met for the first time years before). Ava and Frankie left the party together and, in high good humor, rode along the main street of nearby Indio, firing a revolver out of the automobile window...
...Luisa María Narváez y Macías, fifth Duchess of Valencia, was restless in the quiet of her ancestral palace at Avila. But she had promised, after her third sojourn in Franco's jails, to withdraw from active politics for a while. So she rode horseback, drove her sleek Cadillac with the ducal crest on it, ran a charity kitchen in a wing of her palace, and wrote her memoirs. There was plenty to write about, including her expulsion, at the age of ten, from a convent for throwing an inkwell at the mother superior...
Bechet ("I think I'm 60") and his bride, German-born Elizabeth Ziegler, 43, took their vows at the Antibes town hall. Then, while crowds along the way cheered and jitterbugged in the street, they rode in slow procession in an open carriage to Juan-les-Pins, two miles away, for the reception. Ten blaring jazz bands serenaded them along the way. After them came 400 wedding guests, including Music Hall Star Mistinguett and U.S. Vice Consul William Bates. Other celebrators: French army Senegalese, local fishermen, long-haired existentialists from Paris, two men carrying a twelve-foot clarinet, cagefuls...