Word: canter
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...Critic Mencken, whose ability to write at a canter while thinking at a trot made him a popular literary spectacle, first published his ambitious philological work, The American Language. Weaver, a young journalist who read it enthusiastically, put it to the proof. He sent Mencken, then editing the Smart Set magazine, a piece entitled Elegie Americaine. Excerpt...
...Archbishops, 25 Bishops of Ireland, 244 Chicago pastors, 600-odd curates and nuns of Chicago; more than 1,500 top AFL, CIO, and independent union leaders; F. D. R. and Eleanor, Bernard Shaw, Warden Lawes, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Stalin, Marion Davies, Lord Tweedsmuir, The Anglican Archbishop of Canter bury, de Valera, Harry Bridges, James Joyce, Mayors Kelly, Hague and LaGuardia, Robert M. Hutchins, the Sure Shot Exterminating...
...objects, and consistently hesitated on his third stride toward the jump. She worked out a group of signals: "come on," "ready," "gather for the jump," "hup" for the actual leap itself. Then she taught him to walk up and touch the jump with his breast to judge its height, canter down and turn, settle into his old, familiar stride again. Soon she had him doing high hurdles...
Lonely White Sail (Soyuzdetfilm). When the Soviet cinema chooses to rein in its ideological high horse, the result is usually a pleasant canter-like this current importation. Set in Odessa at the time of the abortive 1905 revolt. Lonely White Sail tells amusingly, and without overmuch political single-footing, of the exploits of two venturesome small boys, very like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, in helping a fugitive sailor from the mutinous cruiser Potemkin escape from a police spy. The boyish ease with which they outwit this official indicates that the art of spying has come a long way since...
...Canter, Racine, and Turetzky are veterans in the spelling game. Winner this year, Cantor says he went down in last year's big been on finial. Kean is an Englishman. The Radcliffe representatives lived up to their advance reputation. The American women handed the spelling order, while the English lasses both bulwarks for Albion, came last...