Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a book called Through Thirty Years appeared in England, written by Henry Wickham Steed, one-time editor of The Times. Foreign correspondents of U. S. journals speedily buried their noses in its pages, seeking some illuminative reminiscence that would justify a cable home. Speedily the correspondents found a jewel...
EXPRESSING WILLIE?A modern business man mounts the steed of Self-Expression and there follows a runaway...
After the opening performance, Miss Claire was rather precipitously promoted by certain of the referees to the post of leading U. S. comedienne. Though this seems a stiff jump to take on so slight a steed as Grounds for Divorce, there can be no doubt that what spirit the play developed she supplied. If the comedy had been a champagne cocktail, she would have played the bubbles...
...issue, for example, contained, in addition to the usual weekly supply of short excerpts from the foreign press, the following surplusage: Early Writings of Lewis Carroll (8 pp.), Memories of Fashoda (11 pp.), Francis of Cardona: A Cheerful Ascetic (7 pp.), The Formality of France (7 pp.), A Steed in the Senate, play by Leonid Andreev (10 pp.), two large cartoons...
...Louisville, a newspaper reporter discovered a 14-year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...