Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from abandoning the stand we have taken against these unnecessary hardships endured by show horses, we, of the Anti-Cruelty Society, feel we have only just begun, and although it may be a long crusade, it will certainly not be a fainthearted...
...correct an error in an article appearing in your Dec. 5 issue on Sport, entitled "Chicago Horse Show"? In it, you state that the S. P. C. A. accepts a decree that tail-sets are agreeable to horses. Neither the Anti-Cruelty Society nor the Illinois Humane Society accepted any such viewpoint. (The S. P. C. A. was not drawn into it, to my knowledge). Mr. Otto Lehman proclaimed in the papers that the battle was over. "The wish was father to the thought": he had such difficulty in getting the horse show togther that he struggled against any interference...
...Mexico City, with two friends.* Young Miss Calles, dark and dashing, was bubbling with "the wonderful news" and wanted to see President Coolidge at once. Unfortunately, diplomatic ritual prevented. There was no one present to introduce her properly. Secretary Everett Sanders was sorry, but had Major Domo John Hoover show the ladies through the White House...
...Royce automobile. Everyone knows that such an idea is foreign to that which would be expressed by me. I do not know who did this. . . ." The House laughed. If ever the Navy had a harsh critic, he is James V. McClintic. It was voted to correct the record to show that Mr. McClintic was not responsible for some jokester's practical prank. Alone among the legislators to protest that the House should investigate such time-wasting buffoonery, was Thomas Lindsay Blanton, Texas Democrat. No investigation was ordered...
...plan," he went on to say, "is to have the students who are interested in acting, begin as all of the most famous actors have, by playing in minor parts, until they are experienced enough to assume more difficult roles, then if they show that they have talent enough, the Repertory Theatre is willing to lend them assistance in leading on to a stage success...