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...fiery steed has lost his old snoring manners; he has become a docile old gray mare. Mr. Mencken will have to add the American Federation of Labor to his list of American Inanities...
Among the equestriennes could have been seen blonde Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, grand marshal of the crusade, onetime belle of the Weston-Super-Mare élite, later reclaimed for evangelical uplift among the fallen women of West London, later captured by gaolers for over-strenuous female Suffrage onslaughts, presently flying about speechmaking to the effect that...
Some centuries ago a legendary Japanese mare of superb perfection committed the unnatural act of kicking to death all of the many stallions brought to her in an effort to obtain an especially fine breed of horses. Appalled by the mare's actions, pious Nipponese noted the position of the constellations and rashly predicted that all female children born under this "Sign of the Horse" would cause the death of their husbands...
Walter de la Mare has written an exquisite story of a midget. It is not a pleasant story, for pitiful stories are not pleasant stories. And the "Memoirs of a Midget" is very and sincerely pitiful. No one has written the life of Zip the "What Is It" to whom Barnum gave fame. Dickens gave a name, and the public gave the vital interest of its perpetual indecorum. But now that Zip is dead and the fellowship of freaks takes on the vestments of usual mourning the need of such a memoir becomes less remote. Zip should be perpetuated...
...when Lieutenant Van Renssellaer assures us in a most mellifluous baritone that he is searching for the Girl of His Dreams. While he is still hunting for her rather noisily, the chorus enters, and performs a really beautiful minuet, which happily detracts attention from Lieutenant Var. Renssellaer's Night Mare Mamma...