Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comic magazine, had grown tired of literary wit and had taken to more obvious measures. Attired in green tulle and early restoration flannels the editors were formed in double file and with file and drum marched dinfully to the tune of "Deep River". Various campus police accompanied them on horseback with loaded black jacks. The whole affair was, to be mild, the most humorous thing which has transpired in good old Ipswitch since the time that the faculty cow called on the president. Indeed, such evidences of virility and originality lead us to believe that Ipswitch need be proud...
Last week he apparently considered himself sufficiently recovered from a series of intestinal disorders to ride horseback once more. First, his motor car roared at top speed up the Corso Umberto Primo, dashed out the Porta del Popolo, and climbed the lovely heights of the Borghese Gardens, now perhaps the most beautiful public park in Rome. There, immaculate in formal riding costume, he stepped out. His horse was led up. A crowd of Fascists cheered as he climbed into the saddle...
Marc Connelly is primarily responsible for this curiously distinguished adventure. Mr. Connelly is the man who worked so long and so successfully with George Kaufman in the manufacture of such plays as Merton of the Movies and Beggar on Horseback. The Wisdom Tooth is his first flight alone...
Treatment and prevention: Abundant sleep; open air exercise (horseback riding and aquatic sports before sailing are recommended); proper bowel elimination; diet restricted to such foods as appeal. For vomiting in excess: rest; the prone position. "Iced brandy, champagne or strong coffee may be given through a drinking tube, but if nausea reasserts itself it is best to continue the administration of [certain drugs...
...mould. . . . He is even an exception to the rule that no one is a hero to his valet. . . . It is wonderful to see how his slightest orders are obeyed. . . ." [When he marches on foot] "so alone, so upright in his martial bearing," [it seems] "as if he were on horseback...