Word: milkwagon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a man has made friends with milkwagon horses between the hours of 3 a.m. and 6 a.m., but who would dally with such nags in broad daylight? John McEntee Bowman, potent hotelman, would and did. A year ago, he took Popover from between the shafts of a milkwagon and had him trained to jump fences. Last week, Popover won second prize in the open-to-all jumping class at the distinguished Westchester County Horse Show in Rye, N. Y. The Flirt was first...
...stepped on the running-board but did not approach the controls. Pedestrians gaped to hear the chauffeurless machine start its motor, shift into gear, lurch away from the curb into thick traffic. Down Broadway it went, looping uncertainly back and forth across the street. It missed a cowering milkwagon, blew its horn, dodged a speeding fire-engine. Motorcycle police escorted the vagrant down Fifth Avenue, where a particularly wild lurch brought the man on the running-board to the steering wheel, not in time, however, to avoid a crash with a car full of cinematographers...
...Horse. Eleven years ago Master Robert II first touched hoof in Ireland. He promised well, but failed. Finally he was put to work and many was the furrow he ploughed. It is even told that he was several times seen drawing the laborious milkwagon. Still he maintained his aristocratic air and once, by chance, was led to the hunting field...