Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe...
...Raditch, however, announced that he would address the peasants. They came on horseback and in carts from the ends of the country to hear him. He stood up before them, a most unprepossessing figure, ill-dressed, half his face concealed by a heavy beard, the other half by thick convex spectacles, for he was nearly blind. He talked to them rapidly, often allegorically and often inchoately. They gave him a reception so passionately loyal, so adoring that it was touching...
Speeding north by train and motor car to Dehra Dun, His Excellency began to "rest" by setting out from there on horseback into the jungle covered foothills of the Himalayas, mightiest of mountains...
Only four members of the Viceregal Staff accompanied Lord Irwin. When the jungle grew too dense for horseback riding, the Viceroy cast dignity to the Himalayan breezes, and began with gusto to scramble and to climb. Leaving the jungle behind, as they ascended, the party made a rocky climb of nearly 5,000 feet to the summit of Chaur Mountain, 11,966 feet above sea level. Then, continuing northward, they scrambled down some 7,000 feet into the jungle beyond. On the following day His Excellency walked 23 miles and climbed 4,000 feet to Phagu, where...
They were married in a hurry, in a civil ceremony performed by a Catholic priest who had known Miss Henry since she first went to Monterey, Calif., and rode horseback with flying pigtails. They had to hurry because Engineer Hoover was sailing again from California for his second big job, to advise the young Emperor of China about his ancestral mines and newfangled railroads...