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Earliest selection is from The Booke of Hunting (1576) by George Turberville; latest, long excerpts from Masefield's Reynard the Fox. In between you will find many a roaring song, piece of horsey wisdom, oldport reminiscence, shrewd talk to mull over. The U. S. is represented as well as England, from George Washington to the late Major William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular...
...Majesty's venerable aunt H.R.H. Princess Louise, dowager Duchess of Argyle, dowager Baroness of Inveraray, Mull, Morvern, Tiry et al., daughter of the late, great Queen Victoria, attended recently a concert staged by her own Kensington Regiment, found fault...
Tooting a shrill goodbye on its whistle, the cruiser U. S. S. Rochester carrying President Hoover's commission to investigate Haitian politics, put out from Port-au-Prince, returned to Miami. Barefooted Haitians in floppy straw hats returned to their homes to mull over the week's events...
Everywhere in the U. S. the movement to unionize aviation formally is now active. Pilots and mechanics assemble in hangars and lunch wagons to mull over grievances. Dale ("'Red") Jackson travels here and there advocating unions (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week he was in Miami to agitate at the all-American air meet. At Muskogee, Okla., the local men last week received a first union charter from the American Federation of Labor...
...more I mull about the matter the greater becomes my puzzlement that Princeton should have taken the decisive step in the break with Harvard. No college ever eat prettier than the Tigers. Year after year they met the Crimson team after a disappointing season and always they came to life to perform prodigies and win a brilliant victory...