Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long known how to read, but only at its case and so has seldom been read. It has now learned to run. If the genius can sing to a typewriter on horseback it should attain the triumph to which such talents surely entitle...
...rumored that the President's dislike for making known his views will extend even to the giving up of his daily walks at 6:30 a. m. Certain politicians, discovering the President's habit, expressed a mutual liking for matutinal exercise. Mr. Coolidge has horseback riding for alternative, an occupation less adapted to confidential conversation...
...daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1854. Empress Elizabeth was a great sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended Viennese society because she rode horseback, because she tried to simplify court etiquette, and lastly, because she had voiced an unerring predilection for Hungary and the Hungarians-a heinous offense in Austrian eyes. It was largely through the Empress that the Dual Monarchy came into being...
This companion of Presidents has many accomplishments to his credit. He is expert at chasing counterfeiters, at horseback riding, at piano playing. He was the almost invariable companion of President Taft when the latter went riding, and made advance arrangements for the protection of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Harding on their Western tours. Besides being guard to Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, he has been chief of the Presidential guard since...
...Austin's world's championship cowboy contest takes place at the Yankee Stadium, New York, Aug. 15 to 25. Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies...