Word: stirrup
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...last fortnight, was vexed. Said he: "Mr. Borglum's head of General Lee everyone recognized. Mr. Lukeman's head of General Lee few people recognize. The nose is crooked, the left arm looks withered and paralyzed, the hilt of the sword is gone and the stirrup of his saddle is broken off. The money is all gone, and the Lukeman carving of General Lee is a mutilated imperfection that cannot be rectified...
...British Coal Strike proved an absolute bonanza to German industry, and many of the British markets captured then (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29) are still held. Recently the Frankfurter Zeitung exulted: "The coal strike was the stirrup and now our industry is firmly in the saddle...
...modeled a puncher throwing his weight on the off stirrup, helping his horse keep his feet during "The Hard Pull." In the anxious faces of horse and man, in the wrenched positions of girth and pommel, a steer they had roped and were dragging out of a bog became almost visible. The proportions and positions of Student Wheeler's first three models were indeed too natural for one teacher, who declared they had no "art" in them. But even this criticism died away when Sculptor Wheeler returned from a visit to the Messrs. Korner & Wood with a quotation...
...lacking hints that he will occupy the newly acquired castle in person; in which case, he will be able to entertain distinguished foreigners by the score who eare to listen to his diagnosis of the war and his reminiscences of how Margot Asquith knocked his foot out of the stirrup on Rotten...
...During my first state visit to England I used to ride in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, every morning at 8:30. One morning a lady on horseback dashed up against my horse and knocked my foot from the stirrup. I sent an aide after her to make inquiries. She came back blushing and asked my pardon. That evening King Edward said to me: 'So you met Miss Tennant in Rotten Row after all. She made a bet last night that she would introduce herself...