Word: pommeling
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White-haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
...dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse's saddle and galloped away. A posse found him in Moody Swamp, his mother's body in a ravine. Police forced frightened Negroes to dig a grave in Little Sandy Cemetery, into which the family council laid Mrs. Scott...
...more than 50 years since I first heard that piece of medical history but I recall that father, when speaking of the amazing bravery and endurance of the patient, always emphasized the fact that she rode on horseback for 60 miles with that tumor resting on the pommel of the saddle...
Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
...modeled a puncher throwing his weight on the off stirrup, helping his horse keep his feet during "The Hard Pull." In the anxious faces of horse and man, in the wrenched positions of girth and pommel, a steer they had roped and were dragging out of a bog became almost visible. The proportions and positions of Student Wheeler's first three models were indeed too natural for one teacher, who declared they had no "art" in them. But even this criticism died away when Sculptor Wheeler returned from a visit to the Messrs. Korner & Wood with a quotation...