Word: mares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Rose Benet suffers less successfully in "The Phoenix Nest"(which should, of course, have become "The Mare's Nest"). The first part of this article on Poetry is better than the second which goes Esquirish in its strain for 'satire'. George Jean Nathan comes out second best too, despite the fact that his parodist has chosen a subject close to the Nathan heart. Neither the virility. nor yet the scurrility of Nathan's style is well imitated...
...royal stables late in the evening, an old cream mare whinnied feebly, gasped for breath and died. She was Amazon Leader, last of the train of eight which had drawn George V to his Coronation 26 years before...
Deciding to take up indoor polo, Gabriel ("Frenchy") Loudoux, manager of a Flushing, L. I. riding academy, last autumn bought a small chestnut mare named Nightingale which had had some training in the game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...
...afternoon last week June Ebdom took the little mare for a workout. They had just started down the bridle path in Flushing's Kissena Park when suddenly Nightingale reared, pawed the air, flopped down in the path. Scared June Ebdom kited back to the stables. "Frenchy" Loudoux sped up just in time to perform a few midwifely duties for Nightingale, before a knot of gaping WPA workers. In three minutes a spindly colt was sprawled on the grass beside her. Rallying quickly, the mare walked to the stables with her foal following in a rumble seat. Loudoux swore that...
...play will be a kaleidoscopic performance, according to the predictions of Richard R. Flood '39, manager and publicity director. There are to be a series of specialties accompanied by various hit tunes composed by the club members. Verner E. Kelley '37, mare for the last two years, and Chester W. MacArthur '37, heroine, sing "Lying in the Sun", in one of the scenes...