Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Thomas Jefferson.* In 1809, at President John Madison's inaugural ball, the Marine Band played a special "Madison's March." Since then it has played a new march at every inaugural. The Marine Band was General La Fayette's bodyguard when he visited Yorktown and Mount Vernon in 1824. Andrew Jackson had the band in to play for the first Easter Egg Rolling and White House Children's Party. Abraham Lincoln asked the band to Gettysburg when he made his famed address; in his time it was by Act of Congress expanded to "one Drum...
Farmers were renting hayfields and hilltops as emplacements for the cameras and telescopes of scientific parties. Mount Washington R. R. Co. reminded prospective customers of its Eclipse Day special, that the top of Mount Washington is 30 acres broad and covered with boulders comfortable to sit upon while the Moon passes in front...
...show's organizer was Miss Cati Mount, 24, brash enfante terrible of Chicago's art world. A graduate of the Art Institute, she runs the Little Gallery in the old Auditorium Building. Last week she sat under a yellow umbrella, leaning on a cedar cane, showing red toenails through her pointed sandals, and snappily ran the show...
...executed in less than 16 min. in a 60 X 20-metre arena. Commandant Francois Lesage of France won first place with his black gelding Taine, as he had at the International Dressage of Geneva last year. A jury disqualified Captain Bertil Sandstrom of Sweden for clucking to his mount (riders must use neither tongue nor whip), awarded second place to Commandant Charles Marion of France...
...mind. . . . The matter with me is, I WANT A MAN! . . . Six months is a long, long while. I want a man." After inquiring into who was responsible for the interview (the accuracy of which Miss Bankhead denied) the Hays organization reprimanded Authoress Hall, Motion Picture Magazine and the Para mount publicity bureau, then considered adding to its celebrated code a regulation against "verbal moral turpitude" on the part of cinema celebrities...