Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought dance-dresses, high rawhide boots, Jaeger sweaters, fur coats, skates; the boys who had asked them up gave them skis and snowshoes if they wanted them. Last week there was a great parade by torchlight from the campus to Occum Pond. The college band was playing, and visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston as Dartmouth Carnival Queen and the prettiest girl there?...
...that jungle there is a football locker building on the side of which one sees a bronze plaque. Here formal tribute is emblazoned to men who hitched their wagon to a star, and who rode in that wagon until the hitchings broke. Here is recognition for men who failed; for the scrubs of Princeton's elevens...
...race. He scrambled up, caught the reins, remounted, dashed after The Beezer, caught him at the last jump. Now The Beezer was down, his saddle empty, the boy stunned on the turf; now The Beezer was up. Out of the crowd a girl ducked under the rail, caught him, rode him past the stands. In the enclosure she, Jean Sanday, daughter of The Beezer's trainer, proved that she made the weight-168 lb. She claimed $15 for being second. The judges consulted an old rule: "Any person of sufficient weight may catch a loose horse and ride...
...quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer there was taken to the nearest town and hanged. William and his successors rode through New Forest after stags and boars. Herds of pigs grew fat in the forest on truffles and mast; their carcasses helped feed forest keepers...
Further plans: to hold the kind of races that were held in Andrew Jackson's time, when gentlemen rode against each other on grass courses, watched by their friends, with the public, bookies, professional riders not invited...