Word: horsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...table lay a big white envelope. The envelope, said Perón, contained a statement listing his assets before he took office; it had been sealed for three years. He persuaded New York Timesman Milton Bracker and the U.P.'s William Horsey to open it. Then he called Prensa and Nación reporters forward to sign statements attesting to the contents. The statement, dated July 6, 1946 (a month after Perón took office), said simply that his assets then consisted of the San Vicente quinta, a Packard and a share in his father's modest...
...looks like the beginning of the end for the horsey...
...yellow curs without any fighting ability," says Colonel Henry Fonda about five minutes after the RKO rooster quits yawping at the audience. The remainder of this courageous-last-stand-in-the-sage-brush saga sets out to disprove the good Colonel's thesis, a problem that involves numerous horsey charges, much sword waving, and about sixteen gallons of ketchup...
...many, and perhaps more, Americans think of it as an overripe opinion sheet, filled with Yalemen, an inflated sense of its infallibility, and an intense desire to diddle at President-making. For every reader who admires the reporting and commentary of a staff that has included men like John Horsey, Theodore White, John Scott and Robert Sherrod, there is at least another who shudders at the forced cliches and elephantine ponderosities of "TIME-style" and gags at the thought of swallowing the Luce line, prepared with infinite cunning in the TIMEdifice in Rockefeller Center...
...Peter Arno's roughshod rides over the horsey set, the classic caricature never dared approach "Park Avenue" in naked triteness. Twenty years late, playwright George Kaufman and composer Arthur Schwartz are endeavoring to sell the public a brand of musical comedy that has long been by the way, and that must be hyper-professional to satisfy...