Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celebrations to commemorate the 100th anniversary of steam transportation. It was on Sept. 27, 1825, that George Stephenson- patron saint of the railroad business ever since-first conducted at Darlington, England, his successful experiment. On that occasion his little "Locomotion I" painfully but steadily followed a man on horseback, pulling after it a train of cars, for 25 miles...
...These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...
Throughout the entire distance, a single artillery officer on horseback led the procession. King George, with his sons and Prince Olaf, followed the gun carriage on foot, clad in long black overcoats and tall silk hats; while the ladies of the royal party, heavily veiled, rode in three two-horse closed carriages. The rear guard of the procession was brought up by the 77-year-old Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, who walked at the head of practically the entire personnel of the Queen Mother's Sandringham estates...
...During my first state visit to England I used to ride in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, every morning at 8:30. One morning a lady on horseback dashed up against my horse and knocked my foot from the stirrup. I sent an aide after her to make inquiries. She came back blushing and asked my pardon. That evening King Edward said to me: 'So you met Miss Tennant in Rotten Row after all. She made a bet last night that she would introduce herself...
Later the Caliph rode on horseback through the streets of Tetuan and muttered a ritual prayer before such of the numberless holy places of the city as were not considered worthy of an actual visit. Before the mosques of Sidi Ali Raisuli, Saidi, and Sidi Mohammed El Hach, he descended from his horse and was elaborately welcomed amid complicated ceremonies during which several bulls were sacrificed. Finally he reviewed the native troops amid much rejoicing...