Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales patted the sleek chestnut flanks of his favorite hunter, a fleet and mettlesome mount named "Oh, Dear." Vaulting into his saddle he nodded to the Duke of Rutland and set off after the latter's famed Belvoir hounds. A lengthy chase ensued, in which "Oh, Dear" and Edward swooped over many a hazard, galloped at full tilt across the downs of Melton Mowbray, distanced His Grace of Rutland completely...
...length a stiff fence had to be taken. "Oh, Dear" sprang like an antelope, cleared the top bar by a hand, suddenly experienced complete heart exhaustion in the midst of the leap, crumpled down into a formless mass of horseflesh, dead...
...instant the Prince sprawled at full length?unhorsed by Fate. Then he rushed to summon aid for "Oh, Dear," whose instantaneous death seemed at first incredible...
...Mlle. Parisys' supporting cast rushed from the wings: "No, my dear Mademoiselle! You cannot make this sale until you have bought a sales-tax-stamp from Finance Minister Doumer! He must have money to pay our debts...
When people heard that "Oh, Dear," slim-legged courser of the Prince of Wales, had died of heart failure while making a jump (see COMMONWEALTH), they realized with vicarious contrition that a horse has a heart that may burst. "Oh, Dear" undoubtedly had a weak heart, although heart disease is fairly uncommon among horses. Their circulatory system is quite comparable to that of humans. Thus the horse has a heart with four chambers (two ventricles and two auricles) arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins and the appropriate valves. The blood is normally so pure that biological chemists use it in preparing...