Word: trotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarks are original and funny; several of his scenes are brisk and entertaining. But the play as a whole suffers badly from a frantic mixture of styles (all the way from George Abbott to Barrie) and from a sameness of subject matter. The "guests" at the Cloisters can only trot out their obsessions; the old lady can only defy and deceive her stepchildren. And the staging, which might have given the play a nice airy unreality, makes most of it noisily blunt...
...Substitutions Unlimited," a parody on the two-platoon football system, will be performed after two years' preparation at half time of the Army game next Saturday. An offensive and defensive band, each having 75 men and 35 substitutes will trot on and off the field in an attempt to out-platoon the Army football team...
...dramatics, set in the New Mexico cow country of 1870. Its main characters, driven by vengeance and greed, wear their passions as openly as their six-shooters. And they switch from hate to love, and from love to hate, as readily as they shift from a canter to a trot...
When the time came for the first heat of the $15,000 Sportsman's Trot, Verhurst harnessed Proximity to her 36-lb. sulky, turned the rest of the job over to Driver Clint Hodgins, 37, who had flown from Manhattan for the race. At the start, Proximity spurted to the rail slot, was unchallenged until the final stretch turn of the two-lap mile heat. There, the 1948 Hambletonian winner, Demon Hanover, started pressing. Hodgins felt Demon Hanover coming, whipped Proximity hard. She outlasted the bid, won by a head...
Next day her family and friends followed her coffin to St. Michel's Roman Catholic Church. Suddenly, the pallbearers began to exchange uneasy glances; the weight of the coffin was shifting for all the world as though someone was moving inside it. They broke into a terrified trot. Inside the church, they set the coffin in the aisle and opened it. They found Alina lying there with her eyes open-dazed but unmistakably alive...