Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Irene Castle McLaughlin started the rumor. In a letter to the Chicago Tribune, the onetime dancer complained bitterly of cruelty to show horses. Three and five gaited hacks carry their tails high in the show ring. This unnatural elevation is effected by tail sets affixed while show horses are at leisure. "Hideous instruments of torture," complained Mrs. Castle...
...committee of veterinaries, captained by Dr. McKillip, decreed tail sets agreeable to horses. The S. P. C. A. accepted the decree. Donning its diamonds, Chicago trouped to the Horse Show, watched three and five gaited hacks prance solemnly around the ring, their tails waving high behind them...
...place of a prize ring, an ice surface for hockey, a bicycle track and other floor devices with which Madison Square Garden is normally equipped of evenings, the customers saw dirt. Soft dirt where hapless riders might tumble unhurt. In the middle of the dirt they saw suave gentlemen in cutaways (afternoons) and evening clothes; judges of horses. Also "Dutch" White, professional ringmaster of many a horseshow, resplendent in a scarlet & gold suit...
...first story, "The Undefeated," tells of a pathetic, broken-down toreador. In "Fifty Grand," which lately brightened the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, there is a brutal convincing picture of the prize-ring in these days of the million dollar gate...
...brick schoolhouse, copy books, McGuffey's readers; Rockefeller's millions and Roosevelt's teeth; Langley and the Wright Brothers building flimsy miracles; Hill and Harriman fighting for a railroad; automobiles and oil wells and Andrew Carnegie, "The Octopus," The Jungle and dirty canned meat; "The Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight," "Old Dan Tucker," "Buffalo Gals" and "The Man with the Hoe." These are a few of the elements of history in the first years of the century; they are a few of the elements in Volume II of Mark Sullivan's Our Times...