Word: stud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten law for the murder of his wife's lover. Meanwhile Governor Stanford became impatient, hired a young engineer named John D. Isaacs who finally arranged a battery of cameras...
There are also a number of "pessimistic personal statements muttered by members of the Class. 'I never married, but I can't see that I saved a nickel by it. 'My four years at Harvard were wasted. I still can't keep the top stud in my dress shirt'. 'No spik Englies...
Whether the Egyptian Parliament accepts or rejects the King's nomination depends largely on Wafd's interpretation of Prince Mohammed Ali's personality and prejudices. An impressive, beak-nosed, 61-year-old bachelor, Prince Mohammed Ali runs one of the world's biggest stud farms for Arabian horses, is the author of Breeding of Arabian Horses. A worldly, amiable and enigmatic man, he is sometimes tagged as pro-British. On the other hand, he has many friends among Wafd politicians...
...When registering Brevity, Owner Widener wrote in the stud book: Brevity, by Chance Shot or Sickle, out of Ormanda. *In one of her rare visits to the race track last week, Trainer Mary Hirsch's younger sister Katherine placed $2 on Bernard Mamies Baruch's Joyride, whose victory brought her $10. Later she placed the same amount on New York Representative Parker Coming's Flying Mare, who galloped home in the lead, brought her $26. Total winnings for Sister Katherine on Sister Mary's horses...
While first-rate "human interest" items continue to pour from the White House, TIME will report them. Example: Sequel to the vest-stud affair is the well-authenticated report that the President's embarrassment was caused by one of his sons making off with the studs, neglecting to replace them in the Presidential bureau drawer...