Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They lined up the convicts and the disarmed guards, two abreast, drove them at a run four miles into the woods, the leaders riding horseback. In a thicket they stopped, conferred on the direction of flight, took the convicts' tobacco, turned them loose. Conley with five others headed south. Loftin moved west. Through the afternoon 104 convicts and guards straggled back to the prison...
...Guild announced that the cycle would be called A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, that the titles of the other seven plays would be: A Touch of the Poet, More Stately Mansions, The Calms of Capricorn, The Earth's the Limit, Nothing Lost Save Honor, Man on Iron Horseback, A Hair of the Dog. While working on these, O'Neill has also written a non-cycle play poetically entitled The Ice Man Cometh. Now busy working on the cycle from 8:30 to 1:30 every day including Sunday, O'Neill has completed his first four plays...
...hour lying on the ground, looking at the stars. Purpose: to check a complex theory about the relation of the heavenly bodies to weather cycles. He is equally fond of integral calculus and boomerang throwing. Both have their uses: calculus helps in working out agricultural formulas; boomerangs, tennis, badminton, horseback riding give him exercise and open air. thus combating a faint family strain of tuberculosis which has not touched robust Henry Wallace...
...Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain). Sir Alan, who was born and raised in France, is one of the Empire's finest wing shots and anglers, and he once rode down and speared a wolf from horseback...
...Horseback who will try to make France strong again had not appeared last week. He was not likely to materialize out of any of the figures now running the country. Some people thought that, if the British should win, General Charles de Gaulle might be such a man. More likely it would be someone as obscure as Adolf Hitler was in 1918. Perhaps it would take a revolution to produce...