Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fierce Huns and Mongols and Tatars who once swept out of central Asia seemed hardly human to their victims. Few civilized people cared how the devils on horseback might live in their faraway homelands, and little is known of the invaders today...
...seen a baby rise from the sea and clap its hands at him. But Nicolson insists that Shelley was "on the whole" sane: "After all, even Goethe (who assuredly was a man of the most Olympian calm and sanity) once met himself riding along a road on horseback...
...Foot, Ford & Horseback. Teacher McKinney's four years at Waterloo had been pleasant, but never easy. Every morning she got up with the sun, drove her 1938 Ford over dirt roads to the schoolhouse and lit a fire in the old stove. When her 15 pupils arrived-some on foot, some on horseback and some, in muddy weather, on tractors-the room was warm and clean; by that time Miss McKinney had swept and dusted the oiled pine floor...
...palm-fringed campus of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. and began looking for a place to build an art museum. Even in those days, Spanish-styled Rollins College was something to behold. Under the unconventional presidency of Hamilton Holt, it was already running heavily to tennis and horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great. Millionaire William Hayes Ackland, an amateur art fancier...
...Ottawan, noting all the excitement, suggested that the city should make a real show of it. He proposed that the plans for a motorcycle escort be abandoned, that the President be conducted wherever he went by Royal Canadian Mounties on horseback. Everyone thought it was an admirable idea. Mountie bosses said: "We'd like nothing better, but we haven't got the horses...