Word: shod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide airing of the Lansing-Wilson grievances at a time too late for political effect and too early to secure impartial judgment, may satisfy the avidity of certain irreconcilables, but it neither settles controversy or redounds to the credit of the country; this spectacle of a President riding rough-shod over principle and precedent, with his Secretary of State weakly acquiescing in practices which he privately abhorred, while the world longed for a strong man to stand up and denounce them. Mr. Lansing does not appear as the sensation-monger. His narrative furnishes largely a corroboration of much that...
...interesting feature in the same act was the appearance of the noted racehorse "Starlight", brought to the hero's smithy to be shod. He was the center of attention for some moments, as he filled the part and kept his little jockey busy holding him in hand. The play moves easily along to an exciting last act, and the players interpret the Irish characters with a sympathy that completely won the appreciation of their audience...