Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were never like armchairs, but there was something soothing in their luxurious brilliance, and they sold well enough to provide him with plenty of armchair comfort. "Tell the American people," he urged a reporter, "that I am a devoted husband and father . . . that I go to the theater, ride horseback, have a comfortable home, a fine garden that I love . . . just like...
...Senator Glen H. Taylor throws no boomerangs, chews no rutabagas. But he has his moments. Once he plumped his family on the steps of the Capitol and, banjo in hand, crooned a tune about how he needed a home. Last fall, he rode up to the Capitol steps on horseback, following a countrywide "peace" tour...
...natural athlete. Her daddy taught her how to swim in two weeks. She climbed trees like a monkey and hung by her knees from the branches. She rode horseback and played golf. Skating was her own idea. From her father, who despite his invalid body worked 18 to 20 hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat...
John Wesley, the sturdy little founder of Methodism, who began "field preaching" in the open air to whatever plain folk would listen. He wrote in his Journal: "I look upon all the world as my parish...." By 1791 he had traveled some 250,000 miles, most of it on horseback over miserable roads, often braving angry mobs, to "preach the Gospel to the poor." Wesley's Journal, sixth of the writings selected by Professor McNeill, is a detailed and vivid record of the rough, violent, unequal world which was 18th Century England to all but the privileged...
...Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than his books, disappeared in 1904, barely mined by scholars. Biographer Mason Wade found them in overlooked drawers of Parkman's Boston study in 1940, has edited them with care and prefaced them with...