Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched the leader on the flank. The horse stretched on the runway like a great cat, launched its four hoofs into the air and, for an imperceptible second, hung suspended so, in the image of Pegasus, a steed thrown sunward- then curved heavily, fiercely down burying its gloss in the brown water of a tank to the noise of a splash, a drum stroke, a great shout. Said the showman: "Often agents of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have come to stop us, and many...
...Paris saw the horses, after the usual momentary tangle, clear away from the web; they reached the first turn. Suddenly, out of the pack, reared a riderless steed, flat-eared, plunging; many women screamed shrilly; what had happened became, in a moment, obvious. Four horses had gone down. Four small men in silks lay twisting on the turf while the field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue...
Doubtless Mr. Coolidge feels that he could never make a great motion picture star. Perhaps he is right, but there is always room for an intelligent and hard-working young man in Hollywood. Who knows what a little brown grease painter, a gay turban, and an Arab steed might do. The screen is perpetually looking for a successor to the great Valentino...
...Wickham Steed, onetime Foreign Editor of The Times, contributed an article to the Review of Reviews (London). In his article, he reproduced a letter, published in The Times in 1919, signed by "F. S. T." The argument of this letter was that the wealthy classes should set an example to the Nation by imposing upon themselves a capital levy. It continued...
...said Mr. Steed, "is Premier Stanley Baldwin and it is well known that he did impose a levy upon himself and that the Treasury acknowledged receipt of ?150,000 of the War loan for cancellation." His example, however, only inspired others to the amount of ?350,000, a total...