Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preparations were made-secretly, with Sacco-Vanzetti disturbances in mind-for a seven-day presidential pilgrimage on horseback through Yellowstone National Park...
...morning this admirable young woman, Princess Eudoxia, 29, assists her brother, the 33-year-old Tsar, with his correspondence, finds out what he desires to eat that day, sets the palace wenches bustling, and counts herself lucky if there remains time for a little tennis or a canter on horseback between the hours of household duty and official functions...
...plane, transferred (at Mitchel Field) to an amphibian plane, alighted on New York Harbor. Long before the hero touched foot on the island of Manhattan, the air was full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn...
...woman is going to ride horseback from Columbus Circle to 42nd St. dressed like Lady Godiva. You'd better stay over...
There was apparently no sort of activity from the art of horseback riding in which Leonardo could not outshine his contemporaries. Few of his paintings have survived, for he did comparatively few. His own versatility injured his greatness, for if he had concentrated in painting, instead of expending his energies in every other conceivable direction as well, he would hold an even higher place in the world of art than he does...