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...fifth period, long-legged Winston Guest, U. S. back, was ridden down by Captain Roark, pitched off his white-booted pony, thrown breathless on his back. His brother Raymond hurried out on the field, saw that the injury was not serious, ran back to stop his frantic mother who had come down from the stands to rush to her fallen son. Twice she crossed the planked boundaries, twice Raymond shushed her back. Meantime Son Winston got up, the crowd roared, he got another pony and the game was on again...
...Aishton of the American Railway Association, Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills. President Hoover explained his friend's job: "Mr. Robinson has consented to serve for purposes of coordinating Federal with State and private credit activities." Secretary Hyde estimated that about $20.000,000 would have to be loaned drought-ridden farmers. Where the money was to come from nobody yet knew. Declared President Hoover...
...Abbot of Canterbury: "How soon can I ride around the world?" A clever shepherd, substituted by the baffled Abbot, answered: "You must rise with the sun and you must ride with the sun until it rises again the next morning. As soon as you do that you will have ridden around the world in 24 hours." For this stroke of sagacity the shepherd's reward was four pieces of silver per week for life...
George Bernard Shaw (74 last week) was asked if he was the tall, bearded man seen riding behind Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence. Said he: "Good Heavens, man, I've got a perfectly good motorcycle of my own. . . . I've never ridden pillion in my life, though I shouldn't mind doing so in the ordinary way. But Lawrence's machine is such a great brute of a thing and he goes so fast I doubt whether I could hold on. Probably I'd be left sitting in the road...
...moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack-Blenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer. Surely, easily, Blenheim, ridden by Harry Wragg, who won the Derby in 1928 with Felstead, crept up, then moved in front, by a shadow, by a nose, then by a good length, crossed the line, with Iliad second, Diolite a staggering, gasping third...