Word: horseman
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...would send her boy a way of getting an education. The road past the McGuffey cabin was thickly carpeted with dust so that Mrs. McGuffey was not interrupted in her prayer by the hoofbeats of a horse that was approaching. Moreover, the dust so muffled the hoofbeats that the horseman, a clergyman who had just founded the Old Stone Academy, could distinctly hear every word Mrs. McGuffey said. Pausing long enough to understand thoroughly, he rode softly off to the next cabin, learned Mrs. McGuffey's name, rode back, answered her prayer...
...When an amateur horseman takes a jump, one of two things is apt to happen. Either the man is determined to take the jump and does, regardless of whether the horse has stopped or not, or else he gets over the jump only to land with his arms lovingly clasped about the horse's neck. The only thing that has kept many a man from falling off after a jump," added the captain "is the fact that the horse's ears were pricked up. If they had been pointed forward, the rider would have slid off immediately...
...White '27, star number 2 rider on the University team, is the only Harvard horseman who was granted an increase. His handicap was raised from two to three goals. The other Harvard players rank as follows: F. A. Clark '29, 4 goals; R.A. Pinkerton '27, 3 goals; Alexander Shaw '28, 2 goals...
Married. Margaretta Barnwell ("Peggy") McNeal, Philadelphia horsewoman; to W. Deering Davis, onetime Chicago, now Paris horseman; at Devon...
...before God above, before the woman he loves. His audacity spells his downfall. Miss Le Gallienne is also audacious. She produces an Ibsen play without a stage director. Autumn Fire, an Irish play and a fine one, is built around the character of a hale, old country gentleman, boldest horseman, keenest hunter, most ardent lover in the county. A too spirited mare breaks the stalwart frame. His own son, his own young bride break the vigorous spirit. These two move with Nature. They love, while the old dictator groans on his death bed, stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments...