Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with suggestions. Came a plan from a general in the Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed by President-Emeritus William Oxley Thompson of Ohio State, University,*finished its judging, announced its decision. The winner was Major Mills...
...pirate ship packages of candy next to linoleum and bathroom tiles of telephone romances next to ice-box detective stories--until infidels become dizzy. The hierarchy particularly glories in converts to the cohorts of the faithful who worship Advertisa, through the medium of cigarettes. Here Bill Tilden. Charlie Paddock, Amelia Earhart proclaim their remunerative devotion to the goddess (though Amelia did send her $10,000 reward to Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy." Morning, evening...
...their paddock at Meadow Brook, the ponies, most of them mares, were slim and beautiful. Their light hooves touched the ground with delicate impatience; they arched their necks and spoke to each other in a language whose only meaning was enthusiasm. Hearing the voices in the stands, smelling the turf and the excitement, they wished the game to begin...
...ponies, eight of them, loped out and poised for an instant at the field's centre. Then, as if swung off in the current of a centrifugal force, they scattered into dancing pairs, towards the field's edges, towards the goals. From time to time they returned to their paddock and other ponies took their places on the hoof-tracked turf. When the game was over, the ponies returned to their stables hungry and tired. After eating well they slept, flicking their ears at faint sounds in the pungent darkness...
...movie queen. They can call her a senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...