Word: riding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bolster Vito Gurino's memory, District Attorney O'Dwyer brought in one of his old pals, Angelo ("Julie") Catalano, State's witness. The two had not met since Gurino tried and failed to take his fellow mobster for a ride last spring because he feared that Catalano would talk. When Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile...
...arrested as a spy (with nine other notable Britons in Tokyo), Jimmy was at breakfast in their seaside house, an hour's ride from the city. Two Japanese major generals and an interpreter came to get them. They took him to police headquarters, held him virtually incommunicado for three days. He was allowed to send his wife five guarded letters. She sent him pajamas, shirts and socks, soap, fruit, cigarets. None was ever delivered...
...blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe, how to thumb a ride. Obliging motorists gave him lifts to Toronto and on to Montreal. Kindly people gave him food, tobacco, even money, but there was one thing no one thought of giving him. When he tried to cross the Victoria Bridge at Montreal he was asked for it: a registration card...
...painted service khaki. It carried the U. S. members of the Joint Defense Council. Photographers asked Fiorello LaGuardia to stand on the car steps and wave his huge hat, but the mayor put his chin down, refused to pose, and rebuked them: "This isn't exactly a joy ride...
...wound beside the road, against the dark and light greens of the north country foliage, the President looked over the 94,000 officers and men of the First Army of the U. S. The Army paid no mind to his request about saluting. Eight times in the six-hour ride through St. Lawrence County's rolling country the long Presidential motorcade pulled up in front of stiffly assembled Army divisions. Eight times the President heard the 21-gun salute followed by ruffles and flourishes; eight times he sat at attention for the national anthem while Old Glory whipped...