Word: piebald
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...pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo audiences, whose familiarity with bronco-riding has been gained from newsreels which show riders only as they are falling off, are inclined to suppose that to fall is the object of the event. Consequently, Cowboy Schneider became a hero with the gallery. More accustomed to piebald Shetlands than to angry cow-ponies, he failed to last the minimum ten seconds in his first six attempts. Less daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week...
...relapsed into a mountainous and silent character. Velvet was not much to look at but she had her mother's spirit. And Velvet worshiped horses. All she had to ride was Miss Ada, the family's unpleasantly decrepit old pony. When a neighboring farmer's piebald gelding was raffled off because he kept jumping fences and running away, Velvet won him and acquired the start of her stable. And when the old gentleman committed suicide, leaving all his horses to her because she was the last person he saw, Velvet knew that her star...
...dozen chancelleries grew worried. Press attacks suddenly ceased. Jugoslavia, too. was calm. It might be the heavy silence before the hurricane, but for the time being even the angry attacks against Italy ceased. Jugoslavia, like all Europe, was waiting to see if the new Regency could govern that piebald land...
...King (Universal). The last things any cinemaddict might expect to find in a mythical kingdom like Alvonia are Tony, Tom Mix's piebald cowpony, and Tom Mix himself, in a cowboy hat. But both appear, Mix as headman of an itinerant Wild West Show, Tony as his factotum. The function of Mix and Tony never varies in the cinema; they are an equestrian first-aid kit, a rescue team. This time they rescue the small king of Alvonia (Mickey Rooney) twice: first when the horses of the Wild West stage coach, in which he is getting a free ride...
...Vagabond has, in the last few years; become particularly "architecture-conscious", (if he can use such an ill-sounding phrase). He has his reasons. From his lofty tower in Memorial Hall he looks down on one of the most remarkable piebald roofs in America, and the maze of nineteenth century fire-escapes has long intrigued him. He would hate to have to use them in case of fire, but then, they provide a good roosting place for pigeons. Far to the southwest, with binocular to eye, the Vagabond can spot, on clear days, the small American flag which marks...