Word: trotting
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...Distinguished Service," read the golden, three-inch medals awarded by the Roosevelt Memorial Association last week, presented by President Coolidge, to Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, George Bird Grinnell of Manhattan and Miss Martha Berry, of Possum Trot...
Perhaps the polka, in ceding to the fox trot, has taken with it some of the charm of earlier days. Perhaps the bustle, the soft candle light, and the champagne punch, in fleeing before the straight gown, electrics, and lemonade, have also removed some of the grace that went with the quadrille. Or can it be that the efficiency of nowadays, as exhibited in the change from the graceful bow of invitation to the brazen cut-in, has enabled the present generation to get the same amount of enjoyment out of the dance in less time...
Washington chuckled, the whole country grinned. The President had been caught taking an illicit horseback ride. He has a mechanical hobbyhorse in his dressing room-a horse with a tin body, on which is cinched an ordinary saddle. By pressing successive buttons, the horse can be made to trot, to canter, to gallop at various speeds-an electrical motor supplying the motion (which is entirely vertical). Three times a day, for ten minutes, he rides...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., was beaten, fixed a new world's record. The race was a 2,000-yard handicap, the occasion the annual indoor games of the Brooklyn College Club. When the pistol punched the air and Nurmi felt his lever-like legs beginning their incomparable trit-trot, he saw up the track three runners thrusting forward, all ahead of him, due to the one hundred yard handicaps. Through the scattered field he pumped, lap and lap; now there were only two, now only one runner ahead of him. That one was Gunnar Nilson, a rival Finn...
...will be, was it strategy that placed the gentle Emerson so near this spelling that it might bask in his calm effulgence? He was a little radical in some things and boldly said that if we had no Greek or Latin, then we should read the ancients with a trot, though he expressed it a little differently. But what he would have said about these quick-lunch spellings is not so certain...