Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trust, was knighted in 1929 for his work. He was a guide to all Rhodes men, a banker to those temporarily indigent. U. S.-born Lady Wylie (Kathleen Kelly) presided at tea-table, had each & every one to dinner once a year. At 66 Sir Francis is ruddy, a horseman and golfer, a "jolly good sort." Like women and elephants, he never forgets. At one Rhodes dinner he presented 250 Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales. He knew the name, college and home town of each & every...
...confused with the man who wrote "The Modern Woman's intelligent Guide to Socialism," the exact title of which, and the name of the Author, the Vagabond has momentarily forgotten, would try the mettle of greater men than even Mr. Jones. A lover of Ireland, then, and a great horseman. H. A. Jones fully deserves the attention which Professor Murray is to bestow on him this morning...
Died. Frederick De Mund MacKay, 66, horseman, vice president & director of E. W. Bliss Co. (torpedoes); one day before he was to be elected president of the National Horse Show Association; of intestinal influenza; in Brooklyn...
...found the company had everything except a popular cheap cigaret. Beech-Nut, Lorillard's first venture into the blended field, had failed. American Tobacco Co. had its Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers its Chesterfield, R. J. Reynolds its Camel. Fat and quick-tempered, Ben Belt is still an excellent horseman, a better salesman. He decided Lorillard should have its Old Gold, in fact must have it if it would stay in the race. The name Old Gold then belonged to a Lorillard brand of smoking tobacco whose sales were almost nil. The name appealed to Belt and the cigaret became...
Wrote His Grace the Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred." British Horseman G. G. Cross gave it as his opinion that it was "a cross between a giraffe and a four-legged ostrich." Loudest objector was Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Fielding McTaggart, author of numerous books on equitation, who for the past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week...