Word: equestrians
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...riderless horse jump higher than a man? To try to settle this footling argument, Manhattan's Metropolitan Equestrian Club last week invited five A. A. U. athletes to compete against 14 show-ring jumpers. With riders to "lift" them, horses have been known to jump almost 9 ft. high. Bareback, few have ever equaled .man's best high-jumping record: 6 ft. 9¾ in. Last week's contest was a washout. Horse's highest jump: 6 ft. 2 in. Man's highest jump...
...sculptor, 78-year-old Cyrus E. Dallin. was finally commissioned to cast in bronze a statue of Paul Revere. One of Sculptor Dallin's appeals: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the ignoble failure of Boston to rear The greatest creation of my long career, The equestrian statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well-known men Selected my model from a competition of ten On July the Fourth, eighteen hundred and ighty-five. The committee, of which not one now is alive, Made a contract with me all legally signed To erect in Copley...
...Throughout the city, as new buildings go up, old ones have come down, but around the Palace whole blocks have been demolished to make a new Royal Square between the Calea Victoriei and Boulevard Bratianu, a quarter of a mile away. Centerpiece of this new square will be the equestrian statue of Rumania's first Hohenzollern King, Carol I. Meanwhile, Carol II is staying at Cotroceni Palace, his late mother's favorite home, on the outskirts of town...
...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
...flaming red shirts, in memory of oldtime General Wade Hamp ton, who drove the carpetbaggers back north and preserved "white supremacy." Senator Smith put on one of the shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds. There, beside General Hampton's equestrian statue, he closed his campaign with a ringing speech to the midnight sky, ending: " 'Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. " 'Lest we forget-lest we forget...