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...doughboy on furlough when he bumped into Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in a French provincial hotel. Miss Toklas ("Pussy," Miss Stein called her) was wearing "a sort of uniform," consisting of a cloak and a skirt with vast baggy pockets; she moved at a springy canter. Miss Stein ("Lovey," Miss Toklas called her) also wore a sort of uniform, modeled apparently on the Greek Evzones but including sandals; she walked like a determined elephant. Both ladies wore hats like helmets. They named young Rogers "Kiddy...
...almost to a man, indulge in speechifying, varying from tense dramatic whispers to semi-hysterical out-bursts. But such melodramatics seem to be inherent in the play. Similarly, co-directors Roy Erickson and Burt Kelsey have far too often permitted the actors to stand in awkward groups in the canter of the stage. If more imagination had been exerted, more realistic and fluid action could undoubtedly have been devised, but again the basic difficulty seems to lie in the play itself, which handicaps the director by substituting pseudo-eloquence for drama...
About the only practice the polo team gets at present is a canter on a riding academy animal or a survey of the feats and tactics of the powerful Crimson polo aggregations of old. But plans are under consideration to build an indoor cage to practice in. Under this scheme the player sits astride a wooden horse and bangs the ball against the sloping sides of the enclosure, which, via gravity, return the pellet for another clout...
Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...
Eliot Daniel Canter...