Word: schooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...mountain. In the valleys below Mont Blanc, however, there is an unwritten law that when a man is lost on the mountain, somebody must go after him. In Chamonix, sharp, energetic little Rene Payot, first Alpinist of France and chief instructor at the army's mountaineering school, put on his climbing clothes, greased his face well against the winds to come, rounded up 25 colleagues and announced simply, "On y ua [Let's go]." In St. Gervais, Louis Viallet, farmer and part-time guide, got on the telephone to call five friends. "When do we start...
Dashing across Austria with his tanks in the spring of 1945, ex-Cavalryman George S. Patton paused long enough to watch a prancing white stallion being put through some remarkable parade-ground paces. General Patton had heard the story of Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School and its Lipizzan* horses. Their classical routines went back to the 16th Century, their bloodlines to Spain and Arabia. When Patton learned that the Nazis had appropriated the Lipizzans and sent 200 mares and foals to a town in Czechoslovakia, he acted with characteristic dash. He sent a tank column to bring them...
...last week, 110,000 U.S. horse fans had had a look at the culture that had so impressed George Patton, and most of them were impressed too. Under Col. Alois Podhajsky and his riders of the Vienna school, the Lipizzans were the No. I spectacle of Manhattan's National Horse Show...
...unvaried. At an imperceptible signal from stiffly erect Colonel Podhajsky, eight smartly dressed riders doffed their two-cornered hats in a courtly bow to the crowd. Then eight white stallions paraded in stately fashion through an intricate precision quadrille. The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture...
...clergyman. Just as he finally began to prosper in his trade he decided to chuck it and take to lay missionary work in the Bristol slums. He took to drink besides. When he died, his widow had to take in boarders, but managed to send Christopher to a decent school. Later he assumed his mother's name ("It was a matter of euphony") and her Quaker faith. He never became a practicing Quaker; but he sends his son to a Quaker school and has a deeply Christian faith...