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...advocate their ruthless repression,* as did the Queen. For one thing, Gertrude Bell's whole life was led in perfect intellectual freedom and with few curbs upon her remarkable physique. After taking a brilliant First at Oxford she was for a time coquette enough to refuse to ride alone, one evening, with a young man in a hansom cab; but not long thereafter her loves became Persia and Palestine and the wild crags of the Swiss Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Lusty Letters | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Petersburg, Fla., her 104th birthday duly celebrated. Mrs. Catherine Fenton of Jamestown, N. Y., went up for her first airplane ride last week. She rode with George W. Haldeman, who piloted Ruth Elder to a spot in the Atlantic somewhere near the Azores. Said Mrs. Fenton: "I am happy, O, so happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Matters | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...clock tonight in the Commonwealth Armory the Crimson horsemen will ride against the Optimists for the supremacy of the Boston Indoor Polo League...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY HORSEMEN RIDE AGAINST OPTIMISTS TONIGHT | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

Thanks for the Buggy Ride. This is one more somewhat rickety vehicle for the comic daintiness of Cinemactress Laura La Plante. It is an antiquated wagon, moving along upon wheels of device so often employed that they squeak loudly: thus, at a picnic, pigs gobble the sandwiches; when the picnickers, a young songwriter and a dancing instructress, seek nearby shelter they are embarrassingly mistaken for a married couple, which, later on, they become. Thanks for the Buggy Ride seems to be unconscious of its triteness. It has a careless, youthful, bumptious gaiety, which gives it the quality of a nutting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Royal Ride. Fairytalewise the State Coach of gold and glass drew up at the portal of Buckingham Palace. The eight superb, matched horses champed their eight matched bits. In another instant the King-Emperor would venture out, alone. Suddenly came an impudent diversion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opened | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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