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...Sergeant Matthew by becoming "Master of the Horse" to a French magician and his assistant, a lady named "The Flower of San Francisco." ("He sawed off my head every evening . . ." recounts the Flower, "and two matinees besides Rrr! . . . Rrr! . . . The blood flowed down to the orchestra . . . The spectators would faint!") But by this time Ferdinand has almost decided that the trenches of Flanders are safer and cozier than the walks of Lambeth...
...Murray carefully braids the horse's mane and tail, "jes' for looks." From the track comes the faint sound of bugles, announcing that the horses for the fifth race are moving onto the track. The paddock is ready for the horses for the sixth, the Metropolitan. "And away we go!" says Trainer Winfrey. Encased in a pair of light blankets, led by Everson on a lead pony, the Dancer walks coolly through the shade to the paddock...
...Popper studied the faint "white dwarf" star, 40 Eridani B, which is 40% as heavy as the sun but only about as big as Mars. Its high concentration of mass forms a powerful gravitational field at the star's surface, where its light comes from. Besides, 40 Eridani B is a member of a double-star system, which allows its speed to be measured accurately...
...much contrasted bosses as brother oafs. Since in musicomedy the course of true love never can run smooth, in this one, Management (John Raitt) Meets Labor (Janis Paige), Management Fires Labor, then, with a little more dexterous management, rehires and weds her. En route there are small blobs and faint glimmers of satire, the usual doings at shop and picnic grounds, and some wackily unusual ones in a chop-suey joint...
...Gascon, though some say of Norman descent, When starved till faint gazed up at a trellis to which grapes were tied- Matured till they glowed with a purplish tint As though there were gems inside. Now grapes were what our adventurer on strained haunches chanced to crave, But because he could not reach the vine He said, "These grapes are sour, I'll leave them for some knave." Better, I think, than an embittered whine...