Word: colts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...younger horse clip-clopped into the puddle. He began to rear and caracole as if he were about to suffer transformation into a colt. . . . And a very old man who was watching from the pavement decided that the puddle was in truth a magic puddle - perhaps the same puddle Ponce de Leon was looking for when he saw in dreams the goldern city of Cathay. The old man tottered across the Boston street and thrust his hand into the water...
Despatches reported that "Wary,' one of the dogs, leaped up and put its paws on Mr. Baldwin's shoulders; that "the Premier gamboled like a colt on his own green...
...before he went, he exchanged amenities with the Mayor. He sent back to the Mayor a blue steel 45-calibre Colt, a gift when he took office; he sent with it a note accusing the Mayor of putting a damper on his activities, especially of preventing him from padlocking the Ritz Carlton Hotel for violation of the liquor law. Philadelphia was in uproar. General Butler had a good record on statistics...
...unpleasant husband complicating matters, and everybody fighting for possession of the ranch and the oil that would make its owner rich. Into this atmosphere charged with hate and what not besides comes Pancho Lopez to show how one can set the world aright with a sense of humor, a Colt 45, and a Machiavellian philosophy...
...double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion. Taking him for a burglar she pinks his shoulder with a Colt. That brings Surgeon Geoffrey into the house pretty often and he in turn brings Gita's endocrines into their own. One night while he rows her through the moonlit salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order, and as for the girl that wants Geoffrey...