Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this script, Jane Russell is shacked up in a log cabin with Clark Gable, and there is nothing between them except grandmother's quilt. At night, while Jane lies sighing and stretching like a contented kitten, Clark gnaws happily at a piece of mule meat. "After a long ride," he explains, "I get hungry as a bear." In the morning Jane suggests a clubby breakfast. "I wish I was a peach tree," she sings, "a growin' in the ground . . . And if he wants them peaches of mine He'll have to climb the tree...
Next morning Airman Townsend galloped off alone into the morning mists for his daily ride, while his Princess went down to Limehouse to dedicate a new church community center. At one time, Margaret had to face and make polite conversation with 50 bishops of the church, her reluctant antagonists, at a formal dinner in Lambeth Palace, Canterbury's official residence. Another day she journeyed to Wiltshire to present a new set of colors to the 1st Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. "History," she told the kilted soldiers, "is not made by a few outstanding actions. It is made...
...good part of the uproar is mere exhaust rumble. Auto-industry engineers blame overzealous admen, who give the engines scorching nicknames ("Firedome," "Strato-Streak," "Blue-Flame") to promote the impression of jet-plane speeds and sell more cars in an ever tighter market. Sings an Oldsmobile ad: "Excitement rides with you when you ride a 'Rocket'/Free and fleet and vibrantly alive/For taking off, or taking a curve...
Commuters who ride the M.T.A.'s Watertown trolley--in to Harvard Square each morning, back to Watertown each afternoon--might be surprised to learn that the friendly, diffident-looking man who travels with them every day is one of the greatest scholars in the world. Indeed, at times that fact seems to surprise and embarrass University Professor Werner Jaeger himself. Last month, for example, when the Classics Department held its first meeting of the year, the chairman congratulated Jaeger on the two high honors he had won over the summer and asked him to explain just what the awards were...
...crisis. The switch came so late that Chief Baggage Master Vincent Jacoby tried to shoulder the orchestra's harp into a bus in order to get it to the theater in time, was thrown out by the bus conductor. (He finally made it by hitching a ride on a truck.) King Paul, Queen Frederika and their two oldest children applauded the maestro's interpretation of Schumann's dramatic Second Symphony, and Mitropoulos joined them for a chat at the theater bar, where Princess Sophie served him a glass of water (a Mitropoulos must at intermission). When...