Word: gallop
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...light company. He played with wire from childhood, is a graduate mechanical engineer of Stevens Institute, once earned his living designing mechanical toys. In Paris eleven years ago Sandy Calder found him self in great demand at parties because of his circus of bent-wire figures which could gallop round a ring, jump through hoops, dance. This success made him give up his none too successful painting. Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent a truck to carry the statues to the exhibition hall and found...
...kill a fox, but to observe the wonderful skill and perseverance of a well-trained pack of hounds after a quarry conceded to be the most cunning, the most baffling, and the most difficult of capture of any four-footed animal; and second, to enjoy a healthy gallop across country, which is not without its hazards...
...properties are barely suggestive of the objects they represent, and a vivid imagination is demanded of the audience. There is not the remotest effort to secure realism, and actors knock at invisible garden gates, and gallop about gayly on horses that are at best ethereal. The strangest part of the mechanics, however, is the behavior of the property men. They are always very much in evidence. Slouching all over the stage, they evince only occasionally a condescending interest in the anties of the performers. In general, they withdraw their attention from their newspapers only to sling a cushion...
That left only one thing for Reynoldstown to do: gallop comfortably past the screaming grandstand, 12 lengths in front of Ego. He did so and became the first horse to win the Grand National at Aintree two years in a row since The Colonel...
Tossing off their last highball, the gay sportsmen mounted the coach and dashed up Fifth Avenue. The entire distance to Newport was covered at a full gallop, Mr. William Goadby Loew tooling the coach most of the way. Horses were changed 21 times, which meant the use of no less than 84 beasts in all. Not since Oliver Gould Jennings (who was also in the party) tooled 406 miles to Shelburne, Vt. in the 1890's had there been such a record-breaking coaching...