Word: muleback
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Orchid Man Lager usually hunted alone with native bearers, sending his finds back to his Partner Henry Hurrell, now 78, by muleback, canoe and raft. Once a hostile Indian tribe led him into virgin orchid territory after he had cured a sick child with a dose of patent cough medicine. Another time, looking closely into a new orchid, he met the stare of a deadly little red coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager...
...Ambitious, he studied law at Emory in Georgia, and later at the University of Virginia. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1901, he was taken into the Paducah law office of Judge W. S. Bishop, prototype of Irvin Cobb's ''Judge Priest." In 1905, after a muleback campaign, he was elected county prosecutor. Four years later he successfully campaigned on horseback for a county judgeship. A horse & buggy carried him around on his winning canvass for the House of Representatives in 1912. Though he had risen measurably from his hillbilly background, there was about him nothing...
...were strange goings-on. A woeful old knight was seen riding a ribby white horse as seedy as himself. He encountered a band of brigands, attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing the part of Sancho Panza, and the rickety...
...France to write the poems he wanted to write. Before this second birth he had studied at Yale, Harvard Law School, practiced law for three years in Boston. He now spends much of his time on his northern New England farm. In 1929 he traveled on foot and muleback Cortes' route in Mexico, to get first-hand impressions for Conquistador, a first-magnitude effort and suc cess. Other poems: The Happy Marriage, The Pot of Earth, Streets in the Moon, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, New Found Land...
...That on June 2 martial law was declared and part of the staff of El Diario, La Razon, La Verdad and El Liberal (opposition newspapers at La Paz) were imprisoned and the rest were given the choice of a two-days' trip on muleback into the interior of Bolivia or deportation by rail. The latter was the more popular choice...