Word: galloping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies...
Murder & Miscegenation. Though this is a Civil War novel, all the fighting takes place offstage, and the Yankee invaders are vehemently discussed but never seen. As the fortunes of the South decline, John Bottomley whips his jaded horse into a final gallop that gets him back to Pompey's Head for a last big scene in which he accepts a dying Negro as his illegitimate half-uncle and watches the family mansion burn to the ground, consuming Villain Monckton in the process. Penniless, but at last united in wedlock. John and Arabella are prepared to face together the perils...
...industry that could turn the economy's slow growth into a gallop is autos, where the potential market is bigger than at any time
...Ridge, First Lieut. Frank A. Haskell looked down on the forming ranks of the Confederacy: "More than half a mile their front extends; more than a thousand yards the dull grey masses deploy, man touching man, rank pressing rank, and line supporting line. The red flags wave, their horsemen gallop up and down; the arms of eighteen thousand men, barrel and bayonet, gleam in the sun, a sloping forest of flashing steel. Right on they move, as with one soul, in perfect order, without impediment of ditch, or wall or stream, over ridge and slope, through orchard and meadow...
...never took a drink. More alert than some of the actors he has to work with, he can master a routine after only two or three run-throughs. For TV Fury has had to kick a club out of a villain's hand while running near full gallop. And once when his pals were playing ball and needed a centerfield replacement, Fury stepped out on cue, trapped a ball on the bounce, between his teeth. Cracked one of the extras: "Those horses are all alike: good field...