Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political planting time in the farm belt. On the same day last week, both presidential candidates climbed on a tractor-drawn flatbed wagon, rode around Henry Snow's gently rolling land in Dodge County, Minn., and sowed the seed from which they hope to reap the farm vote. The occasion was the National Plowing Contest, and 40,000 Mackinawed and jacketed residents of the farm country came to see the new machines, the tests of plowing skill (contour & level land) and the candidates...
...Dwight Eisenhower's first stop was Atlanta. At the airport, he stepped from his chartered Constellation to be greeted by Georgia's Democratic Governor Herman Talmadge and Atlanta's Democratic Mayor William B. Hartsfield. As Ike rode along downtown Peachtree Street, four tons of confetti, carefully distributed by Young Republicans, fluttered down. Thousands of Southerners cheered from the sidewalks and windows. It was the liveliest reception Atlanta had given anyone since Clark Gable came to town on December 15, 1939 for the premiere of Gone With the Wind...
...Business of moviemaking can no longer afford to pamper its temperamental stars. This simple fact of Hollywood economics was made abundantly clear last week to Tenor Mario Lanza, Who rode to movie stardom on the success of the musical, The Great Caruso...
...very good grasp of the game," said O'Malley, with an effort, afterward. "He was quick to see the difference between cricket and baseball." Said the King, "At cricket they only clap. They do not cheer." As time passed, all sorts of bizarre things befell Feisal. He rode to City Hall in an open car while noontime crowds craned at him curiously. He took a regular $1.40 tour of Radio City. In the midst of it a news photographer, afraid of being barred by cops, handed the King his camera and said: "Here-you take the pictures." Feisal complied...
...palmy Cuernavaca, resort town about 35 miles south of Mexico City, Mow bought a big house and hired four servants. A fortnight ago he rode in his Cadillac to Cuernavaca's cobbled shopping section to buy a straw hat. As he stepped out of the car door, five men grabbed him, flicked out police badges, whisked him back to his house. There they also arrested a slim, trim, two-toned blonde named Agnes Kelly, 31, who became Mow's secretary after giving up nightclub appearances and modeling in New York. While Mow fumed, the gumshoes searched his house...