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...brush fire, that ethical excellence could only be inculcated by the heavy rod, that trade was outcast and that the summum bonum of existence was to avoid your neighbor." Miss Gore's mother reared her to believe in poetry, in fantastic superstitions like witches, ghosts and the headless coachman, and in the nobility of the Gores--"if Ireland had her rights each of us would be wearing a coronet." At the age of twenty Miss Gore ran away to the Canadian Northwest and lived for nine months on the horder of a lage Indian reservation...
...gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show calling horses into the ring. Eddie Bauchard is as familiar to horsemen as Announcer Joe Humphries is to prizefighters. Impressive Reginald W. Rives, treasurer of the Association and amateur coachman, is another famed oldtimer. Treasurer Rives has spent much of his life looking and acting like a character in one of the sportin' novels of Robert Smith Surtees...
...South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent them from New Orleans way up to his plantation on the Red River-especially since Messenger was such a wonderful coachman and Crimp such a good cook. But when Crimp's baby came, and it was yellow, everybody knew the reason. Messenger wanted to kill Crimp, but instead he moved out of her cabin and took Grammy with him. Soon afterwards he went away on the "underground," trying to "make free...
...meantime the journal had disappeared. Apparently the whole trouble was the result of the carelessness of Hancock's coachman, who was told to bring six books, and forgot exactly half of them. The missing ledger lay in the Hancock stable from 1776 until 1863, when the building was torn down. Mr. C. L. Hancock, of the class of 1829, found the book and turned it over to the College Library on April...
...brother of the Khedive of Egypt (to whom she was successively reported engaged) and married her. Wasp-waisted Mary Bond was the most beautiful debutante in New York, referred to by Portraitist Richard Hall as ''the perfect woman, nobly planned." Daughter Victoria Morosini eloped with the family coachman and was disinherited. Nobody but the immediate family ever saw Daughter Amelia. According to Riverdale gossip she was horribly mauled by a pet bear as a child, disfigured for life, always lived shut up in a special apartment at the top of the house...