Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets (as an errand boy for the butcher), he was usually absorbed in an adventure story-Rider Haggard or Baroness Orczy...
...group behind Plan D. The boss, although stating emphatically that he wanted no change, finally put his organization behind Plan A; it's the least of three evils so far as he is concerned. Plan A provides for a strong Mayor and doesn't have the unpleasant proportional representation rider attached, although it does out the Council from 22 to nine members, lopping off some important sources of graft for the machine. Of course Curley, intends only to confound the opposition; he will drop his support of the plan once it gets on the ballot, send the word along...
Harvard: Cook, g; Bliss, ld; Donelan, rd; Timpson, c; Koch, lw; Nichols, rw. Andover Academy: Broduer, g; Bates, ld; Rider, rd; Brennan, c; Osgood, lw; Thomson...
Italians (at the Italian School of Cavalry in Pinerolo) first thought that a horse's movements must be controlled almost entirely through the rider's legs, and not through his hands. Federico Caprilli, an Italian officer of cavalry, was, in the 19th Century, the founder of a new system of riding called equitazione naturale, of which the secret mentioned above is a canon...
...with the rest of Cairo in honoring his dead friend. The day after his appointment, he took his place in the mile-long procession behind Nokrashy's immediate family and the gun carriage that bore the flagdraped coffin. The coffin was preceded by a magnificent Arab stallion whose rider tolled the funeral step on two giant, richly brocaded drums. Behind came units of Egypt's armed forces, members of the diplomatic corps wearing bright tarbooshes and sashes, and notable sheiks in brocaded turbans and gowns glistening with gold and silver. Last of all came the vengeful members...