Word: canter
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...reckless; he might do himself harm. All day, as the cars circled, he kept his eye on the little cream-colored machine driven by Nephew Pete de Paolo. The whippersnapper was assuredly reckless, for the first 50 miles he led the roaring, crackling, reeking, spitting pack at a canter of 104 mi. an hour, was passed by Racer Cooper, took the lead again after Cooper had turned his $10,000 machine into a smear of debris against a concrete wall in the 124th lap. Would he learn no caution, that...
...flanked by two cars containing secret service men, with a detective standing on the running board of each. Behind, followed three troops of cavalry and the other automobiles. The procession turned the corner at the Treasury building and rounded into Pennsylvania Avenue. The cavalry took a brisk canter. The empty stands extending to 15th St. were passed. Little knots of people, gathered here and there, applauded. Thin wire cables were stretched along the curb to keep the crowd back, but were not yet necessary. Policemen stood every few feet. The President, a bit constrained, touched his hat when...
...crumbling, but it has long been crumbling, Ebert or no Ebert. The fact remains that a new President will soon be chosen. Two likely men are in the running; but such is the state of politics in Germany that there is many a dark horse that may run and canter home. And of the dark horses nothing can be prophesied, for even the ex-Imperial Princes may stand for election according to the Constitution...
...chuckled, the whole country grinned. The President had been caught taking an illicit horseback ride. He has a mechanical hobbyhorse in his dressing room-a horse with a tin body, on which is cinched an ordinary saddle. By pressing successive buttons, the horse can be made to trot, to canter, to gallop at various speeds-an electrical motor supplying the motion (which is entirely vertical). Three times a day, for ten minutes, he rides...
That is the earliest historical background for all the stories and canter about X. You meet the tale at every step. "X runs a race with Y. At the half mile mark X passes Y running at 7.5 miles an hour. By how much did X win?" It is always the same; and always the happy ending,--X wins, and Y loses. Occasionally Mrs X (X') is called upon for assistance, but she invariably backs her husband to the discomfiture of Y. Even Z somehow seems to be able to put a deal across while Y is left struggling with...