Word: haltering
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...fold. A man working to have his probation relieved at April with four B's must actually bring his grade not up to B, but to A in order that he may have a B in the office. In other words the Midyear grade turns out to be a halter about the neck of the man who would reasonably better his standing. Conversely, the system enables a man in good standing at Midyears to slide his spring work down to D without any evident loss...
Adapted by Playwright Lula Vollmer from the Hungarian of Imre Fazekas, this harrowing story is never more than a quasi-historical melodrama. Its title is ambiguously symbolical: a troyka is a Russian carriage drawn by three horses, the centre horse wearing a halter around its neck. The play exhibits all the typical appurtenances of Russian drama, including characters named Bogulieff and Bolotoff, without any of the vitalizing insight of a Chekhov or a Tolstoy. Natascha is quietly played by Zita Johann, whose intelligent presence gave interest to last season's Machinal...
Show horses in the paddocks at Rye, N. Y., last week craned their necks as far as halter straps permitted. A stranger was coming among them. He was an elderly gentleman rigged squarishly in black clothes; he wore gloves and a blocky black hat. One horse, a jumper, he patted on the nose. The horse wiggled the hairs on its lip. This stranger loved horses. He was, in fact Bishop William Thomas Manning who had gone with one of his daughters (Frances) to the opening of the second yearly Cathedral Horse Show. Earnings of the show fortify the endowment...
...definition of a "persuader" (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926) does not confirm my idea of the connotation of the colloquialism. My father is a Wisconsin-born farmer who has never been south of the latitude of Chicago. For 20 years he has used that term to mean a rope-made halter that tightened up on a horse when he offered any resistance to being led. The pressure of the rope around the nose "persuaded" the horse to follow the leader...
Misaji Kawahara came and saw. Misaji had loved the poor horse well. Loosening the halter he tied its free end to a branch twelve feet from the ground, slipped the noose about his own neck, slid off the branch to tend his horse in another world...