Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon him. Grand moguls of horse-racing and their wives and friends came and looked upon him. Hoipoloi, riffraff, the rabble of racing looked upon him, gauged their bets. Through it all the soft-eyed chestnut stallion stood placidly, inquisitive but unmoved. He was Epinard, four-year-old French steed, brought to the U. S. by his owner Pierre Wertheimer...
Mustafa Kemal Pasha, Turkey's "man on horseback," who was hailed as dictator by the western world, found a recalcitrant steed last week in his Grand National Assembly. The proposed Turkish Constitution gave President Mustafa the right to dissolve the Assembly. The opposition, despite castigations by Ismet Pasha (Premier and lieutenant to Mustafa), held firm to a policy of amending the clause. The amendment was carried. The Assembly can be dissolved only by a vote of the majority of its members. Elections must take place on the Nov. 1 following such dissolution. Any intervening sessions must be classified...
...include everything prior to 1870, it was possible for a gallant gentlemen to clap on his gold-laced hat--if he happened to live at the proper period for gold-laced hats--dangle his trusty rapier at his belt and set off for Paris on his faithful and intelligent steed with few misgivings about the future as long as he kept his rapier and his wits well sharpened. At an even earlier date, it was customary to rove over most of Europe in search of chance combats which were productive of much glory and honorable advancement. And later, when...
Meanwhile, like young Lochinvar, Senator Hiram Johnson, namesake but not relative of Magnavox, has ridden out from the West. As his steed he has chosen Frank H. Hitchcock--"astute broker of delegates" and conductor for Taft in 1908, for Hughes in 1916, and for Leonard Wood in 1920. Mr. Hitchcock's greatest strength lies, so it is whispered, in his control over southern delegates. But in the unusual task of pledging these "rotten horough" representatives to Johnson, the progressive candidate, Mr. Hitchcock will meet the redoubtable Mr. C. Bascem Slemp, who, although he has not been appointed campaign manager, presumably...
Among those present: Charles P. Scott, director of the Manchester Guardian; Henry Wickham Steed, former editor of the London Times; Sir Arthur Willert, former Washington correspondent of the London Times; Sir Philip Gibbs; T. P. O'Connor; John L. Balderston, of The New York World; L. R. Holmes, The New York Times; Joseph Grigg, The New York Herald, Arthur S. Draper, New York Tribune; Hal O'Flaherty, Chicago Daily Tribune; John Steele, Chicago Daily News; W. H. Milgate, Detroit News; Robert M. Collins, The Associated Press; Lloyd Allen, United Press; Frazier Hunt, International News Service; Sidney Thatcher, Philadelphia...