Word: haltered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bingham's attitude towards polofits into the current pattern of such monstrosities as the anti fox-hunting bill, recently introduced and narrowly defeated in England. The stout modern attitude seems to be: since I can't tell a martingale from a halter, I don't see why anyone else should be able to or want to. In our triumphal march towards socialism there are alternatives: lovel everyone down to the common man and play polo. Would anyone care to exchange some old spurs for a pair of sneakers? Black Beauty
After the exhausting festivities in Rio, he and his family welcomed the rest. Mrs. Truman spent most of her time in their comfortable quarters in the admiral's island. Daughter Margaret, in white halter and skirt, sunned herself on the surrender deck (while sailors peered from behind gun mounts) and got in an occasional game of deck tennis...
AUBREY J. HALTER...
...Along. In San Diego, a discouraged broncobuster advertised for sale a "Western saddle, bridle, blanket and halter; rope, block and tackle, wheel chair...
Kidd (Charles Laughton) buries a treasure chest, sails a King's ship into Madagascar waters, knocks off a number of chiseling colleagues, and at long last gets the halter while young lovers Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton make for the altar. All this and more is accomplished without teeth-clenched daggers, plank-walkings, or hoistings of the Jolly Roger. But this new version has not enough energy and inventiveness to take the place of the old, dependable pirate-movie clich...