Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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IRENE CASTLE MCLAUGHLIN (MRS. FREDERIC MCLAUGHLIN) Chicago, Ill. In her able response to Otto Lehman's statement, Mrs. McLaughlin points: to the professionalization of modern hose-shows; to methods of making a horse's tail assume an unnatural position by tail-setting, "gingering" or, in one despicable case, Spanish Fly Ointment; to the punishment which will overtake insensitive persons according to the theory of the transmigration of souls; to a continuance of "a long uphill climb...
...correct an error in an article appearing in your Dec. 5 issue on Sport, entitled "Chicago Horse Show"? In it, you state that the S. P. C. A. accepts a decree that tail-sets are agreeable to horses. Neither the Anti-Cruelty Society nor the Illinois Humane Society accepted any such viewpoint. (The S. P. C. A. was not drawn into it, to my knowledge). Mr. Otto Lehman proclaimed in the papers that the battle was over. "The wish was father to the thought": he had such difficulty in getting the horse show togther that he struggled against any interference...
...McKillip stated that operating on the tail of a horse and the immediate application of the tail-set was extremely painful for at least 36 hours. This, in itself, ought to be enough to spell its doom. He said that horses became accustomed to the constant wearing of the tail-set afterward, but as a "Defender of Animals" wrote me today: "I presume it is on the same theory that, if one hangs long enough, one must necessarily become used...
...Hartman, Director of the Observatory of Laplata, Argentine cabled yesterday announcing the discovery of a comet with a tail on December...
...committee of veterinaries, captained by Dr. McKillip, decreed tail sets agreeable to horses. The S. P. C. A. accepted the decree. Donning its diamonds, Chicago trouped to the Horse Show, watched three and five gaited hacks prance solemnly around the ring, their tails waving high behind them...