Word: horsemanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simplicity and the outdoor life are Foxcroft's keynotes. Horses are its main theme outside of classroom. The school has well-filled stables. Girls who can, may board their own horses. With their parents' consent and Miss Charlotte's approval of their horsemanship, they may ride in the foxhunts for which Middleburg is famed. Miss Charlotte, a hale, erect, full-bodied horsewoman in her late 30's with clear grey eyes, fresh complexion and prematurely grey hair, rides with them. Her piebald jumper's name is "War Paint...
...graduates of the Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means, as taught by Mrs. Hitchcock, even beginning on foot, to learn the rudiments of team play. The second step is bicycle polo, then ponies. Thus may able poloists be developed young. The Old Aikens still average under voting age. Their captain's mother...
Traditions last long in the army however. In peacetimes soldiers take as much pride in good horsemanship as though they would ride to the next war on their horses...
...made but slight impress. She traveled to France. There her dark beauty, wit, enviable taste and prodigious fortune made her a social enchantress. Speaking flawless French, acquired from her mother, she was received in the almost impenetrable salons of the Faubourg St. Germain in Paris. Her Nevada brand of horsemanship, exhibited in the Bois du Boulogne, was the despair of French equestriennes. Meissonier painted her portrait. Ludovic Halevy portrayed her in L'Abbe Constantin, the novel which won him a seat among the "40 Immortals" of the French Academy. While Mr. Mackay remained in the U. S., she crossed...
...cousin, who at the age of fifteen was in love with Octavia, youngest daughter of the house. A professor, kindly young recluse, woos her with classical quotations, understands her adolescent enthusiasms, guides her voracious reading. Worldly Compton, 34, gloating upon her 17 years of mobile beauty, coaches her proficient horsemanship, persuades her parents to send her to his friends of the English hunting world...