Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princess, "I go immediately to help my brother with his fairly bulky correspondence. [Both are fluent in all the principal European tongues.] .... We partake of a light breakfast, and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game such as tennis or ride horseback. An hour during the afternoon is devoted to official visits.... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me with few intimates...
Prince Regent Hirohito† has not only fostered the introduction of tennis into Japan but is an inveterate long distance horseback rider, and a swimmer of remarkable strength. During a recent swimming exhibition off the famed Isshiki Beach, Prince Hirohito donned a bathing suit, seized a rifle, and entering the water, proved his skill at the peculiar Japanese pastime of shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince...
...effect." The Author. In Europe they regard Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher as a ranking U. S. writer, one broadened by a cosmopolitan life but never apologetic for her Kansas origin. When she was a high school girl in Lawrence, Kan., a dashing young Army officer taught her to ride horseback and do higher mathematics. This officer has since been known as Gen. John J. Pershing and while he was helping to conduct the War, Dorothy Canfield did "the steady, quiet work of holding life together" in relief stations behind the lines. She is a Ph. D., having studied at Ohio...
...Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. operates subways, surface cars, elevated trains, motor busses, taxicabs. There are elevators in its buildings. Its messengers pedal bicycles. Its directors ride horseback, sail boats, drive roadsters. Last week it began operating airplanes. The Company had not only contracted for the airmail route between Philadelphia and Washington, D. C., but undertook a passenger service as well. This seventh link* in the country's airmail chain is 123 miles long, from Philadelphia Navy Yard to Hoover Field. Seven passengers made the first trip, among them Airplane Designer Anthony H. G. Fokker of Holland and New York...
...Sultan, Mulai Yusef, a big indolent man, who is supported by the French and Spanish as the puppet sovereign of Morocco. Venerable Moroccans were scandalized by his appearance at the fair en foot. Traditionally he should have arrived either on horseback or upon a portable throne, and heavily guarded in any case. Instead he dismissed his strapping Negro bodyguard at the gate of the fair and entered "practically unattended" - accompanied by only 32 Caids, four Pashas, two French Generals, and the French Resident General in Morocco, Jules Steeg...