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...author of Greenmantle, Midwinter, The Three Hostages (one of the finest romances of modern times) was in Manhattan the other day for a few hours. Lieutenant Colonel John Buchan is a short, quiet-spoken, modest English author. In those characteristics, he is like Walter de la Mare and W. Somerset Maugham, our other English visitors of the moment. They arrived without blaring of trumpets-and both Buchan and Maugham departed quietly, after seeing a few things at the theatre and saying "how-do-you-do-goodbye" to a few friends...
...known largely for this achievement. Their horses far surpassed those of any neighboring tribe, both in quality and in numbers. The horse even took the place of the cow, and one of the main foods of the people, as well as their principle drink, was made from kumiss, or mare's milk...
...Kent '25, captain of the University Polo Team last year, has recently purchased one of the many polo ponies of the Prince of Wales. This horse, the mare "Kitty", was one of the best of the ponies belonging to the Prince, and was purchased at the auction of the British polo ponies held recently, after the International polo matches were finished. Kent will use the fast mare as one of his regular ponies...
...healthy blood and full-blown appetites, Pallieter, simple, lighthearted Flemish farmer, wallows joyously in Life? snuffing its smells, slobbering over its flavors, smacking his thighs over its rich sensations. He swims naked at dawn in his river, cries over the beauties of sunsets and spring flowers, rides a huge mare bareback through a thunderstorm, rolls exulting in new snow on Christmas morning, devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke, a rosy Rubens virgin, married her straightaway...
...horse was Peter Manning, world's champion trotter. The ceremony he and those present were joining in commemorated the death, one day before, of his owner and 'driver, Edward F. ("Pop") Geers, most no table of all reinsmen. Rounding a turn behind his mare Miladi Guy, Geers had been catapulted from his seat when the mare fell, had fractured his skull, died unconscious. He was to have driven Peter Manning one last race, to try and beat the mile record again before retiring...