Word: riding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck...
...favorite story of the late Railroader Whitehead was that once on this trip he attempted to ride his bicycle over a trestle, fell off, landed in a creek...
...hunting gentleman of great determination and self-expression. A major in the War, a mining man by profession, Mr. Thomas has not been happy hunting at Middleburg, Va. and on Long Island. His brusque manners have been interpreted as rudeness and even earned him requests not to ride out with other gentlemen and their ladies. But his friends like him as warmly as his critics flay him and in Tennessee he has found a hunting paradise-natural panel fences, no wire, springy turf-which he has organized efficiently with himself as Master of Fox Hounds. Last spring the Grasslands group...
Minister Johnson's most strenuous experience was a 50-mi. ride on a shaggy Chinese pony up a dry river bed. This reduced the Johnsonian bulk five pounds...
...Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore in New York. The other two distinguished gentlemen are already in California. One is Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, on leave of absence from the University...