Word: cavalryman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pastime for men in British society admired the handiwork of other noble needlemen-a handsome jumper by the Right Honorable the Earl of Harewood (formerly Viscount Lascelles, spouse of Princess Mary); scarves and mufflers by Baron Gainford, vice-chairman of the British Broadcasting Co., Ltd., and Baron Holmpatrick, famed Cavalryman...
...Egypt to fight. The nephew was elevated to the Air Service from the Cavalry where he won his spurs. Many a War and post-War flier was trained under his command at Scott, Carlstrom, Dorr and Kelly Fields. His brother officers still think he looks "like a Remington cavalryman." "Take a good look at that fighting jaw," say they...
Stepping slowly behind, came a proud bay charger, the favorite mount of a Field Marshal who never forgot that he was first and always a cavalryman. Now Earl Haig's high black boots rested empty in the stirrups with their toes symbolically reversed...
...Navy, majestic, ponderous, congeals the fiery blood of a natural cavalryman. Theodore Roosevelt resigns to organize a volunteer corps. The Rough Riders gather in San Antonio-cowboys, jailbreakers, sheriffs, wealthy young clubmen from Manhattan. Ladies in long skirts, with trim shirt-waists that betray an underpinning of steel corsets, straw-hatted, ride to the scene of mobilization on tandem bicycles. Among them is Mary, "San Antonio belle and sweetheart of the regiment" (Mary Astor). For her love, poor timid, countryboy, Bert Henley (Charles Emmett Mack), and wealthy Manhattan clubman, Stewart Van Brunt (Charles Farrell), rival, quarrel, then fight. Their private...
Died. Ivan Andre Bogdanoff, onetime Russian cavalryman, Senior in the Sheffield Scientific School, through which he was working his way by laboring in off hours at the Winchester Arms Plant; at New Haven, Conn., of heart disease, resulting from war activities...