Word: brush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amtree is longer, its jumps a little higher, but the Maryland Hunt Cup, No. 1 steeplechase in the U.S., has special hazards of its own. Instead of hedges which a horse can brush without falling and which, when the big field has crashed through them on the first circuit of the course, are considerably easier the second time around, the Maryland jumps are timber fences with the top rail securely nailed down. In a blue-green pocket of the hills a few miles outside of Baltimore, eight horses went to the post last week...
...rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like a man shot, backward and high in the air, away from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled my chest and almost suffocated me. For I am afraid...
...stopped at a hotel, a practice which Manager Libidins soon grew to dread. In one hotel or another the absent-minded director managed to lose two rings, a gold watch, $200, a brocade dressing gown, two suits of clothes, three silver spoons, a fountain pen, a shaving brush, a Mozart score and all his evening shirts...
...city, under a new ordinance. Editor Jee, who had taken a degree in Political Science at Haverford College, Pa., exhorted the laundrymen to Organize. They did, and soon ran afoul of the Benevolent Association. In his little Canal Street print shop, crusading Editor Jee's ink-brush splashed out pages of copy flaying the Association for "corrupt practices." Frightened advertisers pulled out of the Journal while Editor Jee raged at the Association for "sucking the blood and sweat out of the Chinese...
...Editor Jee's brush made two rapid curlicues, and he found himself in court on the rare charge of criminal libel. Last week at his trial the curlicues were held up for a jury to see. They formed the words mpau shek. That, said the prosecution's interpreters, meant "rob" and "cheat." Nothing of the sort, retorted Editor Jee; it meant "squeeze," which was what he accused the Association of doing. If he had wanted to write "rob," Editor Jee said he would have squiggled chang gip. In 40 minutes, the jury accepted the meaning as "rob," found...