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...plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical to George & Jock in composition was a study called The Polish Rider, showing a longhaired man in a knitted cap & muffler walking a chunky horse over snowy fields...
...your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved by the Z in Zero. Hard into the tall sail overhead smashes a fresh gust and up, up come your shoulders as the boat keels over with one runner high off the ice, ripping along...
Wearing an old Etonian tie under his red muffler, Britain's 34-year-old Earl of Kinnoull fretfully paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing...
When the hearing adjourned they crowded around while friends were wrapping the head of the House of Morgan in his woolen muffler. Why would the destruction of the leisure class mean the end of civilization? Who were the leisure class...
...most to the voters of Le Puy in central France are his hair and his temper. On the Besson skull, hair grows only in two patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...