Word: horsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horsey folk in the East watched closely for hints of what competition to expect next week in Manhattan's "Golden Jubilee" National, where the cream of the Chicago entries were to perform. As at all present-day shows, the most spectacular performance at Chicago was the internal tional military jumping...
...matrons, counterparts of gentleman jockeys but much less experienced in competitive riding. Two, Mrs. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and Mrs. John Frank lin, rode their own mounts. The others had been invited to ride by horse-owning friends whose silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney...
Hearst at 70 has become something of a myth. Few. of his 20,000,000 readers have ever seen his 6-ft., big-boned frame; his long, horsey face and cold, pale blue eyes; few have heard his strangely querulous, nearly effeminate voice. He went to Cleveland for a throat operation last autumn, has not crossed the Rockies since...
Agents for Victor Emanuel, horsey Manhattan broker, aftef being repeatedly eluded, seized the Rolls-Royce coupe of John Barry Ryan, eccentric son of the late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan, in part satisfaction of a judgment of $37,353.46 obtained by Mr. Emanuel for rent on a piece of la>nd near Belmont Park racetrack where Mr. Ryan had thought of starting a racing stable. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week sued Mr. Ryan for $6,000 for parking charges on his private car in its Long Island city yards. Minnesota's Representative Francis Henry Shoemaker, truculent Farmer-Laborite, listened...
Because Prohibition is a matter of politics and politics is a matter of propaganda, horsey, fun-loving Jouett Shouse, ablest of political propagandists, was last week named president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. His selection was announced by rich, precise Pierre Samuel du Pont, chairman of A. A. P. A.'s executive committee. Major Henry Hastings Curran, the Association's president for the past five years, was made vice chairman of the board...