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ACTION-C. E. Montague-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Director and constant contributor to the Manchester Guardian, the late C. E. Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short...
...approval with a handful of coins. Joe was once seen to pick up over 50 coins in less than five minutes when a group of students on the third floor of a dormitory held a competition to see who could drop the coins nearest to the horse's left hind foot. Another time Joe did a prosperous business when two rival gatherings in a dormitory tossed him coins, one paying him to "take the money and get the H--out," the other, "to play another tune." In spite of the apparent prosperity of his business, however, Joe denies that...
...general, the National Horse Show proceeded much as it has in other years. Horsewomen dragged their acquaintances into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around the tanbark enclosure and judges, in silk hats, permitted blue ribbons to be pinned to the dark, nervous faces of exactly 160 superbly tall and graceful winners...
After all, there aren't as many riots as there used to be, and the police record is slimmer than it was. Probably Dogberry would be the first to bless that occasional political phenomenon that lifts so many to their hind legs for one good howl...
...Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind limbs so rudimentary as to look like a big, muscular tail; broad, flat, forward flippers for swimming and spanking its young. While President Coolidge watched, John Ringling's sea elephant gladly devoured 50 Ibs. of fish...