Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...printed paper. The Caesars will now take its place. High policy, the art of the possible, will again enter upon its eternal heritage, free from all systems and theories, itself the judge of the facts by which it rules, and gripping the world between its knees like a good horseman...
Nadir Khan was hardly cold before his supporters clapped the crown on the head of his only son, Mohammed Zahir Khan, 19. French boys who went to school with him in Paris called the new king "a good fellow and a good horseman...
...their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell-scorched preacher and a bumbling sheriff add to the fun, and Meg (crack-voiced Dennie Moore), a licentious slavey who nevertheless "keeps it patriotic." supplies the really bawdy element of the piece. A typical line of hers, addressed to a horseman to whom she has taken a fancy, ends the play: "Come into the kitchen, captain. I've got something...
...researches of inestimable value to History. Dr. Johnson might be summoned to tell the true story of Cock Lane. With Banque, Hamlet and Poor Yorick new worlds of Shakespearean lore could be revealed, but perhaps there needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this. The headless Horseman and Byron's last appearance to Sir Walter Scott could be reenacted...
Known to every British schoolboy is the mythical Etonian to whom a statue was erected for shooting his father who wore brown boots on Sunday. Sir H. Walter Gilbey, Bart., famed horseman and gin distiller, is a Harrovian, but he too has his principles...