Word: gallop
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...riding a handy, sure-footed grey Arab polo pony. We wheeled and began to gallop . . . Bright flags appeared as if by magic, and I saw arriving from nowhere Emirs on horseback . . . The Dervishes appeared to be ten or twelve deep at the thickest, a great grey mass gleaming with steel. They seemed to be wild with excitement, dancing about on their feet, shaking their spears up and down . . . I found myself surrounded. I fired . . . Three or four men from my troop were missing . . . Trumpets were sounded . . . Two squadrons were dismounted and in a few minutes their fire . . . compelled the Dervishes...
...whisky . . . into the river. Grant soon ordered me out of the room, but I refused to go . . . I said to him that I was the best friend he had in the Army of the Tennessee . . ." Grant continued to get whisky, went ashore and set off on a wild, drunken gallop on his horse. Cadwallader caught him, smuggled him to headquarters in an ambulance. "On the way he confessed that I had been right . . . to consider myself a staff officer." Thereafter Cadwallader became Grant's close confidant...
...book has too much padding in its saddlebags, and Author Geer (The New Breed) is guilty of some sloppy writing, but in spite of these handicaps, Reckless and her comrades in arms gallop through in fine style...
...Wind Orchestra conducted by Izler Solomon; M-G-M). A selection from Kurt Weill's nearly forgotten early period in Germany. The first movement is modern, the second a sleazy serenade with a crude rhythm jiggling under a high-toned fiddle, the third a romping gallop. Despite the strange orchestration that leaves the mid-range empty, the music is rich harmonically, and contains snatches of Weill's low-down lyricism that was to blossom into Three-Penny Opera, Street Scene, September Song, etc. Performance: first-rate...
Said influential L'Information: "We feared a Black Friday. It didn't happen." Gallop Halted. It did not happen because the French economy, despite the course of government, has been growing steadily stronger. Industrial production rose to a peak of 175 on the index (1938 equals 100) at March's end, up 20 points over a year ago. Steel production in the first quarter hit a record rate of 12,800,000 tons annually...