Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are fewer dancing solos than usual, and the ordinarily elastic Lester Allen and Tom Patricola have to restrict the natural exuberance of their limbs to a few hoof thumpings. But in that way no one is ever on the stage long enough to wear a crease in the audience's patience. The show has two fine singers in Richard Talbot and Helen Hudson, the latter showing one of the sweetest voices this side of grand opera...
...Wonder horses" do not throng the American turf this season. The one beast talked much of as an opponent for Epinard is a Rancocas (Harry F. Sinclair) horse, Grey Lag. He, being of the Star Shoot strain, has suffered the hoof ailments that all of that get seem heir to; may require chiropody to put him in the running...
...went to the Naval Hospital for similar treatments. The success of the treatment, which was discovered by the Chemical Warfare Service, has been such that the Bureau of Animal Industry is preparing to try it out on the cattle of California as a prophylaxis for the hoof and mouth disease...
...surprise she learned that the hoof-and-mouth disease had begun to rage among the cattle of California, that Arizona had taken fright and had promptly clapped into quarantine all travelers from that direction. Humans are mildly susceptible to this malady, and are capable of transmitting it through their persons or luggage. Galli-Curci and other motorists were therefore disinfected at Yuma...
...Hoof-and-mouth disease is a fever occurring chiefly among cattle, sheep and goats, characterized by the appearance of an eruption of vesicles on the mucous membranes of the mouth, the udder, or the delicate skin between the hoofs. When the vesicles break, a contagious liquid runs out, transmitting the disease from animal to animal. Man may contract it from intermediary objects, from direct contact with the infected animals, or from their milk. The disease often occurs among milkers and handlers of cattle. It is mild and not fatal...