Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brother Lloyd. William Orville Douglas, 45, went, as usual, to his hideaway Lostine River ranch in northeast Washington, climbed mountains and hooked trout. Stanley Reed, 59, whacked repainted golf balls for exercise; Wiley Rutledge, 50, camped out in the White River country of western Colorado. Bob Jackson, 52, rode horseback at his McLean, Va. estate; Frank Murphy, 54, lolled on a Michigan beach; Felix Frankfurter, 61, visited in Connecticut...
...biggest and best of their kind, both are located in jampacked sections, are far from extravagantly comfortable (single-room rates for civilians: $1.50 to $4 a day) The Pershing's best feature is a cocktail lounge on which $30,000 was spent last May. Facilities for golf, tennis, horseback riding, etc., are six blocks away (in Chicago's Washington Park). The Theresa has recreation rooms but is even farther from open spaces...
...conjunction with similar groups at such nearby colleges as Radcliffe, Simmons, and M.I.T., the society has conducted canoe, hiking, bicycle, and horseback trips to many spots of interest, including Ipswich Beach, the Concord River, and the Blue Hills...
...portrait of Aziz that has gained depth. When he plays polo with an English soldier, each thinks, as they separate: "If only they were all like that.'' And at the end of the book, as he is riding horseback with the one English friend who has stood by him, he delivers his heartbreaking prophecy and curse...
...asked him how it felt to be a celebrity, and Hazel Frist put in: "There just ain't a bit of that in him, Aunt Mary." Aunt Mary said Ernest was born with a wanderlust, that she knew it all along. Mr. Pyle said: "He liked to ride horseback but he didn't like to work with them. Horses were too slow for Ernest. He always said the world was too big for him to be doing confining work here on the farm...