Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1940, Lewenthal persuaded Grant Wood to translate his famed Midnight Ride of Paul Revere into a fabric pattern-but no manufacturer would buy it. Last year Lewenthal tried again, and got Manhattan's huge Riverdale fabric company to print not only Midnight Ride but designs by seven other painters too. Four are reproduced on the opposite page...
...time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). In the very choice of such a hero & heroine, Manzoni kicked over the elegant traces that had bound Italian writers to the creaky old chariot of classicism. Free of that dead weight, his story tears off on a wild, romantic ride...
Attorney Hermann Gottfried of Margaretville, N.Y. stood outside an upstate bus rest stop one day last week, desperately trying to thumb a ride, while his bus careened off toward New York City carrying his Gladstone bag with it. A motorist picked him up, the bus company held the bag at the Manhattan terminal, and Gottfried arrived in New York City's Municipal Building right on deadline. There he opened his bag and dumped out its contents: 117 claims demanding a total of $1,500,000 from the City of New York for the rainmaking experiments it conducted last year...
...clubhouse drive. This, he decided, was the life-a far cry from his boyhood years on the farm in Kansas. Last week, just two months after he lost his apprentice allowance (a five-pound weight concession), Charlie Burr entered an exclusive fraternity: he became the seventh American jockey to ride 300 winners in a year...
When we are dead, some Hunting-boy will pass And find a stone half-hidden in tall grass And grey with age: but having seen that stone (Which was your image), ride more slowly...