Word: gait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edge of the tanbark instead of the last jump on the course, went sprawling into a group of spectators, knocking them down like dolls. But no one was hurt; Vadabelle went back to her stall. Otto W. Lehmann's Princess Mary went jingling around with a fine gait to take the heavy harness event. Miss America of the Cavalry School bested Light o' Love in the hurdles. Officers from all the countries whose national anthems the band had played rode against the U. S. on their sleek chargers and were soundly beaten. Eleven...
...sequel to The Covered Wagon. James Cruze who directed that unforgettable history also held the megaphone on The Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest Torrence and Ricardo Cortez perform acceptably. Betty Compson, the love interest, is rather less effective...
Although the tendency has become pronounced for different industries to go their own gait, nevertheless the typical and basic character of the steel industry has not been forgotten. Thus no small curiosity awaited last week the publication of earnings of the U. S. Steel Corporation for the second quarter...
...leathern boots of a cattleman's daughter. Of course the West is a queer place and odd things happen out there, but not quite as bad as that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents to a few lines...
Second, she was Mrs. Norman Gait, wife of a prominent Washington jeweler...