Word: stirrup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering him. Maybe the girth might not be set right, and you have to adjust it. Sometimes I make my inside stirrup a notch or two shorter than the other. It makes no difference if I'm comfortable; my object is to finish good, not look good...
...needs, but he takes them when they do not stop the show. To this rule he makes one wonderful exception: the scene in which he jousts with a person known as "the grim and grisly Griswold of the North." The episode begins as Danny totters up to the stirrup cup. There is a beaker of wine for each of the contestants, and he cannot remember which one has been doctored. Does the vessel with the pestle have the pellet with the poison? No, no. The chalice with the palace has the-or was it the brew that is true...
...Barbara about 18 years before in Cairo. Amidst toasts at the Ritz, the baron recalled: "We liked each other very much right away, but we decided to wait a few years before getting married." Chimed in the baroness: "I ought to have married him then." After several more stirrup cups, the reporters departed with the baron on their heels. He headed for the Ritz bar. Wheezy with bronchitis, the baroness retired to her bedchamber...
...column, he wrote: " 'Twas in the old days the flying boats were landing at Foynes-about '38 I should say; the passengers would come in by launch, shivering and shaking fit to die with cold. 'Surely,' said Joe Sheridan, 'we must invent a stirrup cup for the poor souls, and them not able to put their shivering hands in their pockets for a shilling to pay unless we warm them. What is more warming,' said Joe, 'than Irish whisky, smooth as a maiden's kiss? To take the chill off their poor...
...stirrup-thongs...