Word: chargers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climb aboard, after which Der Führer on the platform talked to him animatedly through an open window until the car moved off- included three crates of "rare geese" presented by the Berlin Zoo, while the City of Hanover gave Equestrian Mussolini a silver statuette of a charger, the flesh and blood original to be sent to him in Rome. On II Duce's arrival, screaming men and women raced forward waving flags and handkerchiefs with cries to their Dictator of "A noil A noil" ("To us! To us!") Appearing on his famed balcony Orator Mussolini ended...
...hereditary duties of the King's Champion are to "gird himself in complete armor," ride out upon a noble charger, fling down his gauntlet, offer to fight all "liars and traitors" who asperse King Edward. With becoming English modesty and shyness, Frank Seaman Dymoke, presenting once more the 14th Century claim of his family to serve as the King's Champion, offered and requested merely to be allowed to carry the Royal Standard of England, because for the last 115 years the Dymokes have not as King's Champions girt themselves in complete armor or challenged...
...received as a reward from His Majesty two pigeons which arrived in a crate lettered: "LIVE BIRDS -URGENT-FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING." ¶A horse of exceptional gentleness named Cherry Grove was discovered in the stable of the Salford mounted police and bought for $750 to become the "charger" which will bear His Majesty through the streets of London on State occasions. Cherry Grove was first elaborately tested in the stableyard of the Metropolitan Police...
...they passed the Wellington Arch, there was a flurry in the crowd behind Constable Dick's shoulder. Something shiny flashed through the air, landed under King Edward's charger. The horse took a few skittish steps, then straightened out. The King never flinched. Equerry Sir John dropped back. A shiny revolver lay on the pavement. Over the heads of an excited crowd appeared the rumpled features of George Andrew McMahon, being hustled away by four policemen towards a patrol van. Special Constable Dick had looked up just in time to see the revolver wavering in the herbalist...
...Colonel-in-Chief of the Grenadier Guards. A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear. Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes...