Word: equestrianism
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...Roosevelt price. Obvious was one fact. President Roosevelt, trying to ride a Sound Money and an Inflation horse at the same time, had urged on Sound Money fortnight ago by announcing a long-term bond issue* (TIME, Oct. 23). Last week prices of grains and stocks were slumping. Equestrian Roosevelt undoubtedly intended his radio speech as a special dinner of oats to put new pep into his lagging charger, Inflation...
...feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath at the ornate bronze equestrian statue to Prince Eugene of Savoy, who helped defend Vienna...
...Harriman's walk in life was one of the best. He was a socialite and an equestrian, a conspicuous member of all the best clubs from the Union to Piping Rock. On a ridge at Brookville, surrounded by one of the few groves of real trees still alive on Long Island, he built himself a huge rambling house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington...
...kingdom like Alvonia are Tony, Tom Mix's piebald cowpony, and Tom Mix himself, in a cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride, run away; next when the bad prime minister of Alvonia has imprisoned the king...
...second wife, 56-year-old Anna Hyatt Huntington, is the daughter of Zoologist Alpheus Hyatt. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France...