Word: gallop
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...lives next door, court her privily when her husband (a traveling salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches are twisted and two ancient steeds-Annie and Katie-gallop to a conflagration on a treadmill. The spectacle of funny, plump Victor Frederick Moore (Princess Charming, Hold Everything) in a fire chief's hat is worth the price of admission...
...best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There is a difference in the tails...
Tailcoat fluttering, dressed as he thought Paul Revere dressed, one David H. Oakes last week rode an old grey mare out of Boston along the course of his model's famed gallop. He rode slowly, through a drizzling rain. Upon the old grey mare flapped a banner lettered: AROUSE CITIZENS! VOTE "NO" ON NOVEMBER 4! Instead of shouting "The British are coming!" this 1930 Paul Revere stopped in each town to hand out a few manifestoes arguing against repeal of the Massachusetts Prohibition Enforcement Act in next week's State referendum. It began: "Hear ye, all people...
...Gallop to Woolsack. Battling Protestant that he was, "F. E." fought the granting of "home rule" to Ireland before the War?for this would have meant rule of Irish Protestants (Ulstermen) by Irish Catholics. When violence seemed the only way to head off home rule, the prizefighter's grandson went to Ireland as chief aide to Sir Edward Carson, dashed about fomenting shenanigans at such a rate that admiring Irish nicknamed him "The Galloper...
...great bay horse in a red hood, with a white blaze on his nose, moving around a curve, down a midway, in a seemingly effortless gallop of matchless speed and strength; a jockey in a scarlet cap and white shirt splashed with great red polka dots?all season this has been the most exciting thing to be seen on U. S. tracks: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up. Last week on the last day of racing at Belmont Park, L. I., Gallant Fox won his ninth great victory of the season, the Jockey Club Gold...