Word: riding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robinson, Furlong, Van Keuren), gave the wallowing sea dogs hell. So hot was the attack that Minnesota's Melvin Maas was at last moved to say: "When peace times are here we jump all over you and accuse you of just wanting . . . a lot of nice battleships to ride around in, but . . when we are scared and the Navy is scared we are going to whip you up because you haven't done the things we haven...
...Kentucky Derbies, to provide free tea parties and banquets for Government officials and local politicians. At Del Mar, Calif., $521,047 of WPA funds was used to build a race track which was later sold to Bing Crosby, in a deal in which WPA was admittedly "taken for a ride." The report also said that Communists had worked their way into New York projects...
Smith was wont to ride into each town perched majestically on the topmost bale of a wagonload of cotton...
Last month union troubles threatened to kill American Jubilee off, but were finally ironed out. When the Fair opened last week, American Jubilee opened with it. Supercolossal it is: on a 300-ft. outdoor stage, in a blinding light, over 300 people march, waltz, sing, clown, wave flags, ride horseback, bicycles, automobiles, to the crashing of a tremendous band. Washington is inaugurated, Jenny Lind warbles, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address, Lillian Russell & Diamond Jim Brady roll up to Rector's in a victoria, T. R. leads his Rough Riders, and in a stand-up-and-cheer finale...
When Phil Charig of this musical set asked him to drive to California one day, Grant went along for the ride, stayed to work five years for Paramount. As a dark, sleek, bedimpled leading man, Cinemactor Grant made $500 a week, but he did not make much headway in pictures. Says he: "They had a lot of leading men over there with dark hair and a set of teeth like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three...