Word: horsemanship
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...rule. Recalling that Elizabeth II was poorly educated when she came to the throne, Journalist Iain Hamilton observes: "She was good on a horse, though; and we have Ben Jonson's word for it that princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship." As for Charles, it would be wrong to encourage him to be "an 'ordinary' upper-class young man and enjoy life among property speculators, advertising agents, public relations artists, fashion photographers, pop painters, dressmakers, atheistic Anglican prelates, pornographers, social scientists and other such heroes...
...spectacle combines the glitter and grace of an ice show, the hell-for-leather horsemanship of a rodeo, the martial pageantry of a Veterans Day parade, and the breath-stopping violence of the St. Valentine's Day massacre. The men are ruggedly masculine, and the girls are worth bringing binoculars...
...commute" from his nearby living quarters), each pavilion to be propped serenely on stilts like a Shinto shrine and set shimmering amid a beautiful pine grove. There would be escalators for elderly visitors, a color scheme (snow white and green) to please the Empress, room for horohiki (ancient Imperial horsemanship), polo, garden parties, banquets, and the crowds that gather to greet the Emperor on his birthday and New Year's. In short, the finest building ever to grace Hirohito's reign...
...years attracted a quiet, middle-aged-to-elderly clientele, which though often enormously rich is not particularly interested in capitalized society or bright lights. Next to golf, horses are the primary interest of most visitors. The riding facilities are of top quality, and gymkhanas in horsemanship are held regularly...
...Indian was one of history's great athletes, excelling at football, pentathlon, decathlon, golf, bowling, hockey, lacrosse, swimming, rifle, squash, handball and horsemanship. So when he died in 1953, the Pennsylvania coal town of Mauch Chunk (pop. 5.945), not far from Carlisle, where he went to college, welcomed his corpse with a $10,500 mausoleum, and renamed itself Jim Thorpe, Pa., in his honor. The town fathers figured he would be a great tourist draw. But disillusionment has set in, and John H. Otto, chairman of the County Water and Sewer Authority, is now leading a campaign to change...