Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has changed, drastically, is the purpose of the scholarships themselves. Cecil Rhodes, who used to ride across the veld with a well-worn copy of Plato in his saddlebag, wanted the scholarships to go not to mere "bookworms," but to well-rounded leaders-"the best men for the world's fight." As it turned out, Rhodes scholars have been on the bookish side. Certainly they are anything but the tight little band of political elite that Rhodes hoped would run the English-speaking world. Of the 2,831 selected since 1903, almost half have gone into...
...enjoyed the life and tradition of an English country squire. Yet again & again he left his comforts to ride into the nearby wilderness. There, this man with a deep sense of the past surveyed the land of the future. He was famed among his neighbors for a strict probity in business dealings, and again & again was asked to act as executor of estates and guardian of minors. Yet he was a gambler. He gambled at cards and on horses; his project to drain the Dismal Swamp (it is only partly drained to this day) was in a line of wild...
Great Days. That afternoon the Columbine pushed on to Minot, N. Dak., and next morning Ike drove 70 miles out from Minot to the giant Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
...Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless sea and lets human nature take its willful course...
Noyes's next success, The Highwayman, carried him even further-into "scores of anthologies and several hundred schoolbooks in England and America." It has since become the basis of two cantatas (one by Deems Taylor) and, like another popular Noyes work, Dick Turpin's Ride, the theme of a movie. On these successes Scotsman Ian Crawford based his fine parody, Hollywood Highwayman, with its memorable third stanza...