Word: horsey
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...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...
Another Color. In Los Angeles, tired of gags, Charles Horsey asked the court to change his name to Collins...
Died. Edmund Somerville Tattersall, 79, world-famed auctioneer of race horses; in London. Stout, white-haired, softspoken, he was senior partner in the auctioneering firm founded by Richard Tattersall in 1766. Association of the name Tattersall with horse auctions and horsey people became so close that the name joined the language: a tattersall is 1) a horse market, 2) the alarmingly brilliant sort of vest some people wear around paddocks...
...range as a boy, became a mining engineer. Later he became a partner in a New York Stock Exchange firm, organized and managed Mayflower Associates, Inc., one of the most successful investment trusts ever operated in the U.S. Now retired, he lives on a 600-acre farm in fashionable, horsey Middleburg, Va. Commuting the 43 miles to his Washington office, he drives 40 miles an hour. Says he: "What kind of a guy would I be telling other folks to save gas when I was burning it up at 70 miles an hour myself...
Director of the worthy ATS is Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (TIME, Oct. 9). Overseas ATS commander (called "Top Ats" by the Tommies) is crisp, efficient Mrs. Kathleen Molly Fuller-Maitland, horsey wife of a major heroically wounded in War I. Last fortnight Mrs. Fuller-Maitland arrived in France with six assistants, including a former parlormaid, to make all ready for her main force to join the B. E. F. One of her first acts was to post a list of rules which ATS must obey at the front...