Word: manigault
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...when the Lewises would throw him out. "It's all dead wood," snapped crazy Grandma, of her household. "Somebody ought to come along with an ax. . . ." But Catherine believed that two living things remained: Aunt Willy's stallion, and a vigorous neighboring farmer named Tom Manigault. Life began again for her when the stallion won first prize at the State Fair, and the farmer became Catherine's lover (they planned to marry after her divorce). Life ended again when the stallion was accidentally electrocuted, when her washed-out but repentant husband came to beg her to come...
...Sporting scenes, because they contain balanced movement, a living impulse of clean speed, have always attracted artists. Degas, for instance, cultivated the paddock almost as assiduously as he did the salle de ballet. He is represented in this exhibit by a pencil study of a horse. There is Middleton Manigault's modernistic painting of an International match; a series of Robert W. Chanler's decorations on Polo Through the Ages; George Wright's Grooming Polo Ponies; two water colors by Ivester Lloyd of a game in full tilt; spirited etchings by Morshead and George Soper...