Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week the book department of Lord & Taylor, Manhattan department store, leased by the Doubleday-Doran Book Shops, Inc., stopped displaying Mrs. Eddy. Simultaneously The New Republic, Manhattan liberal weekly, appeared with an article by Newspaperman Craig F. Thompson of the New York World, entitled "The Christian Science Censorship." Said Newspaperman Thompson: "The Church maintains in every state . . . a Committee on Publication . . . 'to correct in a Christian manner injustices done Mrs. Eddy or members of this Church by the daily press, by periodicals or circulated literature of any sort...
...issued an elegant supplement, "Fox Hunting Formalities," by J. Stanley Reeve, seasoned and punctilious sportsman of Haverford, Pa. Member of the Radnor and Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Clubs, second-cousin-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, J. Stanley Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds. But he knows what M. F. H.'s like...
...keep on the inside of the circle when the hounds turn toward you. It makes your horse last longer because he has less distance to go. ¶If you override the hounds, do not tell the Master you could not hold your horse. "Simply say, 'Sorry.' . . . Remember for the rest of your hunting life that a horse you cannot hold is the poorest of excuses for overriding hounds. If one cannot control one's horse, the hunting field is no place...
...think a fellow who would pay $1,000,000 for a horse ought to have his head examined, and the fellow who turned it down must be absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner, Texas oil & cattleman, for Reigh Count, derby winner (1928). He had turned down the offer. Reigh Count is now ready for stud although he may be raced one more season...
...Last week Reigh Count, Mrs. Hertz's champion rooster, won the grand prize at the Chicago Poultry Show...