Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...text unite to form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance...
...Marine Band. The inadequate pay of its members later drove him to form his own band. A versatile musician, he composed over 300 pieces, 100 of them marches. His "The Stars and Stripes Forever" netted $300,000 in royalties. A crack shot and a finished equestrian, he also wrote The Transit of Venus and The Dwellers in the Western World...
...Washington the Austrian Minister, Edgar L. G. Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
...year around outdoor sports are a feature of Stanford, life. With an eighteen hole golf course, three outdoor swimming pools, acres of rolling foothills for the equestrian enthusiasts, and two lakes on the campus itself (the lakes reminiscent of Wellesley on spring evenings) many have difficulty in regularly attending classes...
...horse between his knees. The horse, swinging sideways to avoid rough going in the road, is balanced by the figure of Folke, who leans outward and downward, searching the road in another direction. There is a tragic bend and twist and movement to the piece seldom found in an equestrian statue...