Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles, Eldon Griffiths rode around with a 550-lb. lion for two days, then brought the beast to a TIME party. Polishing his fingernails on his coat, Griffiths said casually, "He's more afraid of me." After his "City in Terror...
Only a small crowd waited in the 20° cold at Kansas City's Fairfax Field to watch the presidential DC-6 Independence land after a four-hour trip from Washington. Kansas City shoppers hardly bothered to look as the President rode through town with his wife Bess and daughter Margaret. Their police escort and the driver of their maroon Lincoln dutifully stopped at all red traffic lights...
...valley Texans had ever heard of Hoiles. Then, for $2,000,000, his Freedom Newspapers Inc. bought the three main valley dailies-the Brownsville Herald, Harlingen's Morning Star and McAllen's Evening Monitor (total circ. 37,500). From his Santa Ana, Calif, headquarters, old "R.C." himself rode into the valley on a bus to reshape the papers according to Hoiles. He threw out Drew Pearson's column, replaced him with Fulton Lewis, George Sokolsky, and his own column. His favorite campaign: a bitter, continuous assault on public schools on the ground that free, tax-supported education...
...England it had meant a traditional two week binge. On one of the boats crossing the Atlantic, passengers celebrated Christmas with a fortnight-long drunk, which caused twelve deaths. After that, the Puritan opinion of the Yuletide was markedly unfavorable. Things reached the point where Samuel Sewell in 1670 rode through Boston streets admonishing store keepers who closed shop on December...
Donald Farnham Gibson rode home in his chauffeur-driven Cadillac to the $50,000 house he built just before Miss Ayres's death, to be greeted with tears of joy by his second wife, the former Widow Wetmore, whom he had married the day after Miss Ayres was buried...