Word: sleighs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tackle on the University eleven, will play the part of the Grand Duke in the Russian Skating Carnival which will take place in the Boston Arena at 8.15 o'clock Wednesday, evening, it was learned yesterday. Clark will not make his debut on skates but will appear in a sleigh with Mrs. Gaspar G. Racon, the Grand Duchess. This vehicle will be drawn into a model village square on the B. A. A. rink by Pansy, the Skating Pony, who has been imported from the snowy steppes of Russia for the occasion...
Mayor Gillis announced that he would run for Governor of Massachusetts. He started a newspaper called Bossyisms. Said he: "What a sleigh ride! Boy, oh boy, what a hooking! . . . I'll turn the home town inside out! It would take me fifty years to tell all I know about some people...
There are four moments upon which the focus of the story falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...
...there seem to drum in imagination's ear those feverish midnight hoofbeats which so often heralded (in winter or summer, snow or clear) the approach of the mad yet somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women...
Freddy the Cabman was as temperamental as an opera star about being interviewed. It took the CRIMSON reporter a half hour to persuade him that a few reminiscences, not a nocturnal sleigh ride over frozen Cambridge streets behind old Freddy the Horse, was the object of his approach...