Word: marees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horses have all but disappeared from the battlefield, but now and then a 20th century warhorse turns up to keep alive the old traditions. Such an animal is Reckless, a beautiful little (eleven hands) sorrel mare who endeared herself to the 1st Marine Division in Korea...
...well who left his family to fend for themselves, but his eight-year-old daughter, Cathie, was sure that he would return some day a king. So was Tom, the orphan with whom she was raised. Tom had a vision of Abijah "high and lofty on a frothing mare ... a giant printed on the sky." Tom tells his own first-person story of how he grows to manhood in the Civil War South, thinking he hates Cathie, but really loving her, of how he commits that "act of darkness-worse even than killing" with Cathie, while "winter crouches like...
...bowler hat and barks "By Jove!" His name is, of course, Marmaduke, but Humorist Daninos, not wishing to make his countrymen die laughing, has not named the major's son Fauntleroy. The major's first wife, Ursula, was a British horsewoman with a face like a mare, feet like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula has taken her last toss ("She fell at Bombay in the Viceroy...
...among racers (including Prince Philip), became a standard feature at Cowes. With more than 2.000 Fox-designed yachts afloat throughout the world (but few in the U.S.), Uffa has no trouble keeping up his credit at the pubs of Gowes. When the weather prohibits sailing, he rides Frantic, his mare, around the Isle of Wight. Last year he fell off, broke an ankle. He promptly ordered up a sedan chair and set out daily to tour the pubs like a Roman emperor, borne by two sturdy porters and accompanied by an umbrella-toting neighbor. Uffa's friends and professional...
...fine talent for slapstick, especially in a very funny cigarette-lighting episode. Sheila Tobias, in tight black suit and trenchcoat, seemed perfectly cut out to play the sleek female assassin, and only Jordan Jelks, as the urbane Mr. Price, failed to enter the whacky spirit of the occasion. Mare Bragnoni, on the other hand, gave the best performance of all as the male assassin a lisping, bumbling misogynist who dispatches women for purely "humanitarian" reason...