Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales patted the sleek chestnut flanks of his favorite hunter, a fleet and mettlesome mount named "Oh, Dear." Vaulting into his saddle he nodded to the Duke of Rutland and set off after the latter's famed Belvoir hounds. A lengthy chase ensued, in which "Oh, Dear" and Edward swooped over many a hazard, galloped at full tilt across the downs of Melton Mowbray, distanced His Grace of Rutland completely...
...very nasty hedge with a ditch on either side had to be taken. Lord Stalbridge, Master of the hunt, rode at the hazard, but suddenly pulled up as his horse showed signs of refusing to take the jump. Not so Edward of Wales. He crouched low, urged his mount to clear the first ditch and the hedge?was thrown heavily as his horse fell into the second ditch?fractured his left collar bone...
Engaged. Miss Constance Moody, granddaughter of famed evangelist Dwight L. Moody, daughter of the noted head of the Northfield Seminary for Girls and the Mount Hermon School for Boys; to one William Waldo Case of Farmington, Conn...
Died. John Henry Bushman, 82, father of virile cinema actor Francis X. Bushman and of eleven other offspring, at Mount Washington, Md. He was a Civil War veteran, a descendant of one of three brothers (John, Isaac, Ephraim) who landed in the U. S. from Germany in pre-Revolutionary days and soon married three sisters Miller...
...strict witness to the fact that senility in the lbis sets in at an age even earlier than in humans. It is not that we lack the most profound respect for the Lampoon tradition, but it would seem that the lean years have arrived in the purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesale vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue. The lbis has that bilious and mangy appearance that...