Word: mctaggart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rehabilitation fund raised after earthquakes lately damaged Helena, Mont., $3,100 was contributed by distillers -Seagrams, National Distillers, Glenmore Distillers, Beng & Sons, George L. Tracy, Bertoglio & McTaggart. Of the $3,100, $150 was offered to, and gratefully accepted by, a Lutheran Church; $500 by St. Joseph's Orphanage House of the Good Shepherd. Last week St. Paul's Methodist Deaconess Home declined $500, announcing that "considering the source, it is impossible to accept...
...Duke of Portland, twice Master of the Horse under Queen Victoria: "The thing is a stargazing, ewe-necked thoroughbred." British Horseman G. G. Cross gave it as his opinion that it was "a cross between a giraffe and a four-legged ostrich." Loudest objector was Lieut-Colonel Maxwell Fielding McTaggart, author of numerous books on equitation, who for the past three years has been carrying on a bitter dispute in British newspapers and illustrated weeklies with a fellow horse-author, Lieut-Colonel S. G. Goldschmidt, on the proper method of jumping a fence.* Last week he dropped his feud with...
...Goldschmidt-McTaggart dispute reached a climax year ago when both Colonels met at a steeplechase course for a trial by ordeal. In the presence of dozens of spurred, booted officers, newsreel photographers, both Colonels jumped many a fence, made perfect scores, resumed their argument...