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...50th championship. Fifteen hands high, she holds her plump neck punctiliously arched, lifts her hoofs in a gait which is higher, slower and shorter in stride than that of a standard bred horse. She has four white stockings, a white star on her forehead and a white snip on her nose. Her black tail is cropped; on her black mane, in the show ring, are knots of red wool to accent the curve of her neck. In her stall she shows traces of the nervousness which is noticeable in all progeny of her mother. She regards all small objects...
...small girl and her younger brother swarm onto their grandfather's lap and after them and onto the same lap leaps a flop-eared and gangly puppy dog while the grandfather is at breakfast? . . . The puppy dog can see and reach the presidential plate. . . . A lightning-like snip is made and a carefully fried egg, prepared for President Hoover himself, disappears into that bottomless pit that is every puppy dog's stomach...
...Died. Snip, cream cairn terrier, favorite pet of King George V; after choking on a feather while stalking the Royal pigeons at Windsor Castle...
Average U. S. operagoers want their music, like their sermons, short. To them it matters little when conductors freely snip great passages. Only critics and a small minority call such cutting desecration. Yet for them last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera changed its policy. began a series of Wagner matinees in which, for the first time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four...
...stockholders at their meeting in Baltimore last week approved the long planned consolidation with the Mackay Companies (TIME, April 2)-birds may perch on I. T. & T. land wires. Now, under all the seas, along the lead-bound cables of the I. T. & T. fishes may snip and gulp their food of slimy algae, dainty shell fish. The International Telephone & Telegraph Co. is ubiquitous by telegraph, cable, telephone, wireless, radio...