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Wrapping Mrs. Coolidge in a horseblanket on the grandstand of the Pine Ridge fairgrounds, the President first beheld a Sioux pageant-including war-painted savages, bareback riding and children dressed as beets, carrots, cabbages. He received presents from the Misses Nancy Redcloud, Rosa Red-hair, Jessie Marrowbone, Mary Little Iron, Jennie Blue Horse, Emma No Horse and several chiefs...
...blood and full-blown appetites, Pallieter, simple, lighthearted Flemish farmer, wallows joyously in Life? snuffing its smells, slobbering over its flavors, smacking his thighs over its rich sensations. He swims naked at dawn in his river, cries over the beauties of sunsets and spring flowers, rides a huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke, a rosy Rubens virgin, married her straightaway...
...Miss Mary Wallace (Agriculture) to Dr. Charles Bruggmann, 2) a visit to the Army-Navy League Ball in the sail loft of the Navy Yard, 3) a visit under the friendly protection of John Ringling to the circus at which, according to reliable reports, Mr. Coolidge most enjoyed "bareback riding, trapeze performances and trained dog acts...
...little, the threads of plot are woven together, the more important characters brought into relief and allowed to disclose their hearts in conversational ease. Their lives grow through the four acts of the play. The lion-tamer plays her wiles on all who come in range. The little bareback rider, used by her pseudo father for his own ends, loves and is loved by her riding-mate; she is sold instead to a roue baron. But "He", who has stood aside, unfathomable, jester like, commenting mildly cynical on all that passed, projects himself into the story and brings...
...Monday and Thursday from 3 to 4.30 o'clock; and Tuesday and Friday from 1.30 to 3 o'clock. Each section will be divided into three classes, one for beginners and two for experienced men. The beginners' class will be instructed in the methods of saddling, mounting, dismounting and bareback riding. Those in the advanced classes will have the privilege of drawing cut horses whenever they are not needed for classes. Last year many took advantage of this ruling by taking all day hikes into the country on Saturdays...