Word: clop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lloyd Wrights constructing a row of thatched cottages, they have studied the authentic models down to the last detail. Holmes himself appears on the glossy jacket, dressed in his deerstalker and plaid cloak. Within, a yellow fog haunts as ever the windows of 221-B Baker Street, hansom cabs clop beneath the gas lamps, and Landlady Hudson is forever being swept aside by terrifiec clients. Holmes himself is the same old neurotic-spending most of the day in his mouse-colored dressing gown, brooding over the Times, and indulging his parsimonious habit of filling his after-breakfast pipe with...
...drowning." Wilma, the police reasoned, had gone to Ostia in the gloomy April off-season to bathe her eczema-infected foot in salt water; she had then been caught in a treacherous undertow and carried beyond her depth. Her family buried her-a service with banks of flowers, the clop-clop of horses pulling the black hearse, the family following on foot, weeping. Then her death was forgotten by all but family and friends...
...Quick Look. Next morning the peaceful clop-clop of fiacres on the Boulevard du Quatriëme Zouaves was interrupted by the rumble of trucks filled with Berber troops and the quick march of the blue-black Senegalese riflemen. They were met by a mob of some 10,000 screaming Arabs armed with sticks, stones and anything else that could pierce or bludgeon. Hard-bitten French Commandant Louis Durand three times commanded the mob to halt. As the Arabs continued to surge forward, Durand gave the order; the crack of rifle fire split the air and an estimated 40 Arabs...
...which stood clean and glowing under a bright blue sky-resounded to a flowing torrent of sound. At the tip of Manhattan it increased. Ships and tugs lent their whistles to the din. Then, lower Broadway -the financial district's Canyon of Heroes -began to resound to the clop of police horses, the crash of brass bands, as paraders moved out to lead MacArthur a mile; to City Hall. History's greatest fall of paper, ticker tape and torn telephone books (2,850 tons) cascaded down, filling the street ankle-deep. It fell so thickly for a time...
...rhythmic clip-clop of hoofs tapping down Roosevelt Raceway's brown half-mile oval was smothered by a swelling roar from the stands as the six-horse field came into the final turn. With less than a quarter-mile to go, a fast-stepping brown mare named Proximity, unbeaten in her five starts this year, had not made a move out of her third-place rut along the rail...