Word: trot
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...requires of its readers much leisure cannot be presented in other than skeleton form within the conventional stage-time limit. But for those who might regard acquaintance with the bare story of Crime and Punishment as a social accomplishment, its present dramatic version may be recommended as a convenient "trot...
This morning at the pleasant hour of 4.50 o'clock the Happy Milkmen, alias the Harvard baseball team, are due to arrive home from their summer trip to Japan. Enlivened by the bracing early morning air five of them are expected to be all set to trot out for football practice. However, the Sabbath interveneth...
...Trot, trot, trot. The moccasined feet of lean brown men covered ground. For 73 hours on end, for 450 miles, a dozen Tuscaroras and two Senecas jogged in relays carrying a little chamois bag holding three white grains of corn. From Fort Niagara, N. Y. to Washington, D. C., at hour intervals runner took the bag from runner, while 13 others followed in a motor bus, waited their turns...
...takes it upon himself to encourage a romance between a pretty acquaintance of his. Evelyn Venable, and his bashful bank clerk Kent Taylor. He accomplishes his purpose when he discovers the balking horse he has sold Miss Venuable can trot if coaxed by singing. After persuading kent Taylor to bet on the horse, he does his share on the singing end of it. While the plot is weak. Will Rogers makes David Harum an enjoyable evening...
...reached the story-telling stage, shunt the President off to his next appointment. Mrs. Roosevelt, "the most natural and energetic person . . . who has lived in the White House in generations," gives herself so much to do that "even today, at the age of 49, she often moves at a trot." Though "extraordinarily ignorant and even gullible in the academic sense," Mrs. Roosevelt gets around so much, meets so many people, that the President relies to a great extent on her reports of the public pulse...