Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What She Can Do. If the Queen pleases, she can ride in a horse carriage down Rotten Row, where others can only ride horseback. Her picture will appear on postage stamps, but she will not need them; her personal mail is franked. She can drive as fast as she likes in a car which needs no license number. She can tell her sister Margaret when she can marry, and will surely advise her on whom to marry. She can confer Britain's highest civilian decoration, the Order of Merit-one honor in which the Sovereign retains freedom of choice...
...part suite, had more than just impressions; Composer Guion even worked in recordings of a Texas cricket singing, a mockingbird calling and a coyote howling. Among the other 13 parts were such plaintive songs as Buffalo Bayou Song and Wild Geese Over Palestine, Texas, an item entitled Ride, Cowboy, Ride!, with staccato hoofbeats, and for a climax, a low-down blues piece called High Steppin' Lula Belle May Ida Brown of Lyons Avenue Steps...
...unofficial record of 98 out of 100. But Patton might well have been jittery about an upcoming ordeal. During the next four days, against the world's best athletes, he would have to 1) swim 300 meters, 2) fence from sunup to sundown, 3) ride a strange mount over 25 jumps on a rugged 5,000-meter course, 4) run 4,000 meters cross country. When it was all over, young Patton was an aching mass of muscle. But to the day he was fatally injured in an auto crash in Germany in 1945, General George Patton stoutly maintained...
Prairie Godiva. The trail-end towns seemed to be designed with two things in mind: receiving cattle and raising hell. The very names of towns like Dodge City, Ellsworth and Abilene made decent folk shudder in the 1870s. When a drunken cowboy boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about...
...Tall Men, he plays Sergeant "Mike," the tallest and the strongest of the ten men who save a French Colony from the claws of the Sheik's marauders. In doing so the sergeant wins a medal and a very remarkable princess--very remarkable because she can ride horseback for hours, wearing only gauze pants and a halter, without getting even sore knees...