Word: horsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgie was the horse-faced only daughter of a retired English army officer. Her father was a stupid incompetent with furtively amorous tendencies; her mother a horsewoman without the money to be horsey. Georgie was brought up to be ignorantly innocent, to hope that the right man would come along some day. But the War had left England a million men short, and Georgie was not attractive enough to win out in the manhunt. She tried to be in love with Purfleet, an intellectual light-weight who was cautiously attracted by her massive virginity, but as soon as marriage...
Among those passing through the tunnel were: a priest from Notre Dame University on his way to a dentist appointment: a horsey Kentuckian on his way to a race track; an unemployed plumber; a railway switchman; the wife of a packing company official come to town to do some shopping. And, about to take a train to Washington Park race course was Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. "leg man" (newsgatherer but not writer) for the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper man with racketeering side interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved...
...Polo, which Harper & Bros, bought from Publisher Martin Quigley last spring and dressed up for the International Matches (TIME, May 19). Last week Polo was sold again, to a group of Editor Vischer's polo-playing friends who agree with him 1) that Polo should be purely horsey, not social; 2) that smartly published horsiness will pay. Editor Vischer will now run Polo solo, assisted by a learned "advisory council" and with contributions as before from wise young Robert F. Kelley of the New York Times, famed Horse Artist Paul Brown. Reading with even deeper interest, expecting to collect...
Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
...goes into an automobileless retirement, the riding equipment department, bought by a director, will be run under the name Sickles, Inc. But the few customers of the commercial harness departments will have to ferret out other manufacturers, or else go to the mail order houses, still selling many a horsey thing, perhaps a major factor in the downfall of J. B. Sickles...