Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation style. "When I listened to the record I could see [Confederate General James E.] Jeb Stuart with his plumed hat and redlined cape galloping around [Union General George] McClellan during the Peninsular Campaign . . . the incomparable Robert E. Lee at Fredericksburg . . . Appomattox Court House and Marse Robert's ride to Richmond . . . Then I thought of the terrible Reconstruction and old Thad Stevens and Ben Wade, who wanted Andrew Johnson kicked out so he could be the President...
...designing the church (without fee), French Architect Robert Erell, a Protestant, was awarded the Order of St. Sylvester by the Pope. This, according to Bureth, entitles Erell by ancient 'custom to enter St. Anne's Church on horseback. Showman Bureth is arranging to have the architect ride into church astride a horse just before the Canoemen's Mass on Whitsunday...
Harriman's manager, DeSapio, is no man to neglect this possibility. He has just won with a long shot, and he might as well let his stake ride. It doesn't cost DeSapio anything, and the talk makes the political spring more springlike...
Instead of taking the usual bicycle ride by which he unwinds at the end of a 6½day week, Presidential Assistant Robert Cutler, chief executive officer of the high-policymaking National Security Council, stayed at his desk last week to make up a thick folder of top-secret background information for his successor. The successor: Dillon Anderson, 48, who, like Cutler, is a lawyer, novelist and man of affairs...
...make sure that nobody missed his message Townsend took to hailing newsmen from his Renault Frégate on his way to the stables for his morning ride. "I say, chaps, are you trying to get hold of me?" One reporter finally suggested he could stop all this simply by issuing a denial of the romance rumor. Said Townsend, affable and imperturbable: "I know...