Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speakeasy (Fox) is a hasty commercial attempt to record the sounds of a great city-a fight at Madison Square Garden, a crowd at the racetrack, trains in the Grand Central Station, Manhattan traffic. To provide a framework for the noise a girl reporter risks worse than death in interviewing a pug who takes his rubdown before his shower, chats happily with his trainer 30 seconds after being knocked down three times and finally counted out in the ring, and who looks as though he wore a size 13 collar. Other inaccuracies mark a picture which as a story seems...
...Fox-Loew. Denied Nicholas M. Schenck, cinemagnate, President of Loew's, Inc. last January: "There has never been negotiation with Fox or anyone else, either corporation or individual, looking towards the sale of Loew's, Inc., or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Insisted William Fox, cinemagnate, President of Fox Theatres Corp.. in Manhattan, Feb. 27: "There is absolutely nothing to the report I have purchased Loew properties. I emphatically deny I am even conducting negotiations...
Your reviewer also says, "Author Sassoon is not only an able fox-huntsman. . . ." There is no such word as "fox-huntsman." Webster might consider that anyone who hunts is a huntsman, but if our contributors on equine matters used the word loosely in The Alain Liner, we should receive letters of friendly ridicule, if not scorn...
Countless generations of fox hunting folk have established a crystalized vernacular. "A huntsman" is a hunt servant who "hunts hounds"; "whippers-in" are servants who keep hounds in place; "the M. F. H." (Master of Fox Hounds) is social head of the hunt, and disciplinary leader of "the field"; other riders are "fox hunters" or "riders-to-hounds"; "hunter," used singly, refers to a jumping horse used for following hounds...