Word: canter
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Since King George VI succeeded to the Imperial throne five months ago his political and medical advisers have been training him like a race horse so that he will be in top form May 12. Last week on St. George's Day, as a brief preliminary canter, His Majesty delivered the first formal public utterance of his reign (211 words...
...Delmar Leighton will be the Head Patroness this evening. The other patronesses are Mrs. Harold H. Burbank, Mrs. Henry Chauncey, and Mrs. James B. Munn. The Freshman ushers are Arthur Canter, William C. Coleman, Jr., Thomas V. Realy, Jr., B. Stephen Hall, William R. Maginder, Peter E. Pratt, Augustus Soule and William L. Wood...
Piccadilly Jim (Metro -Goldwyn - Mayer). When Caricaturist Jim Crocker (Robert Montgomery) hears Ann (Madge Evans), a U. S. beauty who enthralled him in a London bar, remark that she is going for a morning canter, he appears on the bridle trail in full-dress clothes, mounted upon a cart horse. Little does he know that the lady loved by his egregious father (Frank Morgan) is Ann's Aunt Eugenia (Billie Burke). When his pursuit of Ann costs him his job, he boils the pot with a comic strip inspired by those members of her family whom...
...correspondent was leaving an hour and a half later. Governor Landon called to the family's Negro maid: "Call up and tell 'em to saddle Cy, Myrtle.'' Motoring out to Topeka's democratic Hunt Club, the Governor went for a brisk seven-mile canter. At 6:30 p. m. the four Landons sat down to their usual big dinner. Missing was 18-year-old Peggy Anne, the Governor's daughter by his first wife, who is a junior at Kansas University. As usual, Nurse McCue ate with the family. After dinner the Governor retired...
...Borah of today has not even a home in Idaho. When he goes West he is obliged to rent office quarters and live at the homes of his friends or at a hotel. Nor is he any longer the Westerner on Horseback who used to canter through Washington's Rock Creek Park. He has not ridden since he had an operation on his prostate gland at Johns Hopkins in 1933. His home is nine rooms in a large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about...