Word: steeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States Hotel. There, as the Comtesse de Trenaunay de Chanfret (incognito), Clio sets the town by its ears. She breakfasts at six in the stables, eats potato chips outdoors, sets other new styles. She also sets her cap and her talons for railroad multimillionaire Bart Van Steed, the most eligible bachelor in the Western Hemisphere...
...runs a first-class Western-style fight against railroad pirates, during which two locomotives collide in a tunnel. He gets back to Saratoga in time to claim his lady at an effectively staged costume ball, and to promise her that he'll make more money than Van Steed ever dreamed...
...drawings (at the Grand Central Galleries) depicted glowing Western canyons, Indian cliff dwellings, stampeding horses, luridly lit desert dawns and sunsets. Fifty-Seventh Street's sophisticates thought they looked as corny as old-fashioned magazine covers, but had to admit that few living artists could paint a prancing steed or a frightened herd of mountain goats as realistically as William Robinson Leigh...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...
...Dressed up as Uncle Sam, Horace Woodward, of Arlington, Va., mounted and coaxed his steed into Bull Run, switched horses in midstream with Ann Hedrick, just to show it could be done...