Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goodly crush of people who had not seen a horse in years paid for that privilege last week in Manhattan. At Madison Square Garden was held the National Horse Show. About 1,000 horses (worth $3,000,000) were exhibited for glory, money prizes, cups, gay colored ribbons...
Time was when the Show stood in the public consciousness as a fashion mirror and a society assemblage, more than as a gathering of horses. In those days there were more horses in use, less society. The latter, formidably fortified with new apparel, converged from many cities; festivities started with a dinner at Del-monico's;*everything was eminently haughty. It was well worth the public's money to see such sights. It still is, no doubt; but last week most people went to see the horses...
...road hacks. Some walked, some trotted, jumped, pulled phaetons, balked, whinnied, won and lost. To add to the illusion, a clatter of old time coachesf filled the arena now and then, with "coaching parties" riding on their roofs. William H. Vanderbilt tooled one of them. Another exhibitor at the show was J. G. Gerardi, of Scranton, Pa., for whom a kind-hearted judge had postponed a 30 day sentence for violation of liquor laws that he might show his animal, Halerood...
...Story: Designers last week exhibited in Manhattan (at the Art Centre show) silk dress fabric taking as motifs jazz bands, Fifth Avenue crowds, ticker tape, rollercoasters, etc. In similar designs are printed linens and other fabrics for drawing-room hangings. Graphic art is represented in the work of F. V. Carpenter. He has designed a pattern portraying Manhattan's shopping district with its pedestrians & automobiles. Other designers have used toboggan slides and umbrellas, massed lines, moving lines of busses and cars. Artist John Held Jr. has done a jazz band-round bald heads, heads with sparse hair, their owners...
Suddenly, too acutely aware that half London's delight in them is simply its eagerness to be present at another "Crowne show," like Norman's disaster, Emily asks Philip Luttrell to marry her; Philip Luttrell, a country parson who has developed in his middle age a tardy adolescent adoration for her, covers his surprise with delight. Restraining a last minute eagerness to run away from the country wedding, Emily waits until she reaches London on the first night of her honeymoon to dodge Philip and go back to her brother. But at the house in Edwardes Square...