Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning a rich villain's bribe, exit with laughter and on horseback...
...girl without any clothes on is going to ride horseback down Fifth Avenue...
...Upon one occasion, at least, Alfonso was put to an extreme test of courage. Deciding to visit a leper colony in the midst of almost inaccessible mountains, he rode on horseback for the better part of two days to the dread hamlet. There he received a great welcome. Never, in the en tire history of the colony, had a sovereign been so bold. Advancing through the street, the King was suddenly confronted by a leper, who ran out from a nearby building. Leering, his evil, malicious-looking face contorted in an ugly menace, he held out an infected hand...
...Manila Bay. San Juan Hill.* Along the edge of the sandy mounds that surround Santiago, Cuba, the U. S. Army waited until July. Then one morning the first cavalry, holding rifles across their chests, rushed up San Juan hill. Behind them was the second brigade, 500 men on horseback standing in their stirrups and galloping along, shouting curses or encouragement to one another like polo players. They called themselves the "Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt got off a little black horse to lead his men. Leonard Wood was pulling the mouth of a big roan. A few hours later that battle...
...every day, even in the jungle. To add to her difficulties, the thin-lipped Nordic already has a wife, who refuses a divorce. The artless child overcomes all these obstacles, in spite of the fact that until the last reel, she wears no Parisian gowns but appears only on horseback, in the jungle swimming pool, in a hula custume, or (when her dog scampers into the Englishman's room and she gives chase) in a kimono. Divorce is forthcoming when the wife is tricked into believing her husband penniless. All this receives, and certainly needs, enormous...