Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wearing gaiters-"For the very obvious and excellent reason that two centuries ago my predecessors as bishops did all their work on horseback ... I still, naturally, wear gaiters...
...source of replacement parts for engineers' equipment in the world that the War Department had to send in a special team to clean up the depot." And it ridiculed a general who explained that "he located a hospital in a swamp because he rode over the land on horseback in winter and didn't notice...
...Traditionally the King's Champion rode on horseback into the coronation banquet hall, flung down a gauntlet, challenged anyone to challenge the new king's right to the throne. No one ever has. The ceremony was last enacted at the coronation of William...
Tragic Destiny was not likely to upset any literary reputations. The story of the demimondaine who sparked the Paraguayan Napoleon to dreams of empire and simultaneous war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil had been better and more fully told in English (William E. Barrett: Woman on Horseback). But Hildas thin volume was good reading and it might sell to Mexican movies. If it did, Hilda the actress would undoubtedly want to go with...
...about two things-painting and horses-Remington was dead on the level. It was one of the darker hours of his life when he finally had to give up horseback riding because no horse could carry his weight. He painted and cast the horse's strenuous anatomy with freedom and exactness. Long before he died (at 48, after an appendectomy) he had his epitaph ready: "He Knew the Horse...