Word: rides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Triste Sibelius 4 Fantasia, "Samson and Deltish" Saint Saens 5 Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 6 Asa's Death from "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg 7 Slavonic Dance op No 3 Drovak 8 Finale, Fourth Symphony Tschkovsky 9 Dance of the Hours Ponchiell 10 Waits, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss 11 Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
...special program has been arranged, consisting of the music of Rimsky Korsakoff and Wagner. The Russian composer will be represented by his symphonic suite, "Scheherazade", and Wagner by the following numbers from the "Ring Cycle"; "Forest Murmurs" from Siegfried, "Funeral March" from "The Dusk of the Gods", and "The Ride of the Valkries". Excerpts from "Die Meistumger" will also be played...
...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
...cowboys could find a boa-constrictor that bucked, they'd saddle him up for the Round-up", said Mr. Furlong, "for they try to ride any animal that has a buck in it". The worst of all are the bucking buffaloes, which no one has ever been known to stick to. Bucking bulls are the next hardest, particularly as the saddle is put as far back as possible "to get everything that's in the bull in the way of a buck, out". The most famous of these animals was Sharkey, who was black, weighted a ton and a half...
...electric are and incandescent light grow from a very doubtful laboratory experiment to a public necessity. He saw the electric street car grow from an impossible nuisance to the universal method of street transportation. He saw the bicycle develop from a great high wheel which required an acrobat to ride, into a popular device which nearly everybody knows how to ride. He saw the telephone when it was one of the curiosities exhibited in a dime museum along with an assortment of other freaks. He saw the automobile spring from what was considered a silly mechanical experiment to a great...