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  • You know, confident, take charge guys like Rough Rider and former President Teddy Roosevelt, or the manly character Jack Bauer from “24”?

    A movement to bring back the 'man's man' 2010

  • And while deft advertising can work wonders-it turned the Volkswagen Beetle into a craze-it cannot turn Perot into the TR of 1912 -- Rough Rider, author, orator, much-loved former president.

    That Man On Horseback 2008

  • The head of the company, Edmund McIlhenny's eldest son, John, was a former Rough Rider and a close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt's; rival companies suspected that the friendship influenced the government's decision, Mr. Rothfeder says, but they couldn't prove it.

    Ingredients of a Family Fortune Mark Robichaux 2007

  • Teddy Roosevelt, the former Rough Rider and war hero, wrote: “Great as the provocation has been in dealing with foes who habitually resort to treachery, murder and torture against our men, nothing can justify the use of torture or inhuman conduct of any kind on the part of the American Army.”

    OpEdNews - Diary: DINOs Schumer and Feinstein Back Mukasey 2007

  • - Jake Brooks The Son Also Rises When his first son was born 22 years ago, Governor George Pataki named him Teddy, after Teddy Roosevelt, the trust-busting Rough Rider and one of his inspirations to enter politics.

    Maxed Out 2005

  • Our two Rough Rider students, Meagher and Gilmore, are doing well in their college work.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • The Rural, whose Rough Rider hat was now discarded for a black-velvet tam-o'-shanter adorned with a coquettish pink rose, rigidly resigned it to his eager grasp.

    The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • The Rural Free Delivery whipped up the white horse and the stern contours of the Rough Rider hat disappeared down the winding, shadowed road.

    The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Then we have tried for governor an illustrious Rough Rider, and we liked him so much in that great office that now we have made him Vice-President-not in order that that office shall give him distinction, but that he may confer distinction upon that office.

    Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910

  • Our two Rough Rider students, Meagher and Gilmore, are doing well in their college work.

    VI. The Return Home 1899

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