Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus at London. At Melton Mowbray, the Prince's hunting centre, he was having his own troubles. Stealthy and insidious, the dread "hoof and mouth disease" has been blighting English cattle in many counties of late. It was feared that the Prince's horses and hunting dogs might spread the disease as they swooped in full cry after an elusive fox. Therefore, the Prince did not hunt...
...There were refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid...
...Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized by one Dr, Christian F. Reisner, who raised the money. The assembly marched...
Prince of Bourbon was as clean a horse as you could wish to see-small head, thin hock, deep chest, round blue hoof; moreover, he was being ridden in the famed $50,000 Belmont Stakes (Belmont Park, L. I.) by Earl Sande, who has been called, not without justice, "world's greatest jockey." So it seemed curious that obliging gentlemen with receipt-books were willing to offer $10 to every $1 of yours that Prince of Bourbon would not win the race. But if you thought that American Flag, for instance-swift...
...extraordinary thing about Napoleon is the perpetual interest which his name evokes. Let anything from a horse's hoof to a pyramid be found that has the remotest connection with him-and the daily press gives it a place of honor on the front page; and the Sunday editions immediately put on weight. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Charlemagne and one or two more of the better known empire-builders-where are they compared to the great Buonaparte? Dim and distant figures. Time may be re- sponsible for this inequity in interest. But not even the Duke of Wellington...