Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appropriated $1,500,000 to fight the hoof and mouth disease in Cali- fornia and other Pacific Coast States...
...Horse. Eleven years ago Master Robert II first touched hoof in Ireland. He promised well, but failed. Finally he was put to work and many was the furrow he ploughed. It is even told that he was several times seen drawing the laborious milkwagon. Still he maintained his aristocratic air and once, by chance, was led to the hunting field...
...official camera test. It screens well-in particular the midnight ride of Paul Revere. In view of this producer's Birth of a Nation and the Klansmen's ride, it might be expected that he would express the drum beats of a rising nation with hoof beats; they charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite trick of shifting scenes abruptly demands-at times-a jackrabbit...
...difficulty to a startling success. Already at hand are Bill's "tense" scenes with his parents,--difficult ones for all concerned, including the audience,--his impassioned outcry, "Why anything? I didn't make myself!" There is the conventional arrival of the baronet off stage to the thrilling accompaniment of hoof-beats. There are those eternal broken sentences which may mean anything. "If I could--", "Perhaps it would be better--", "Then you mean...
...finding large sale for his "Daily Dozen" among the sedentary thousands who crowd offices in the morning, ball fields after lunch, and theatres in the evening; all because science has made life too easy and it is no longer necessary to spend hours stalking one's food on the hoof...