Word: 160th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week more than 500,000 Britons gathered around the horseshoe course at ancient Epsom Downs, 15 miles from London-and perhaps 100,000,000 more the world over tuned in on their radios-for the 160th running of The Derby. In the field of 27 three-year-olds, the popular favorite was Lord Rosebery's Blue Peter, a chestnut colt who few weeks before had won the Two Thousand Guineas, first of the season's Big Three races for three-year-olds.† Babbling bookmakers, taking hard-earned bobs from farmers, charwomen, clerks, winked slyly under their...
...furrows of Aprilia," bellowed II Duce, "are made in the victorious time of our African enterprise, the 14th year of the Fascist era, and the 160th day of the unfair economic siege against Italy which increases the disorder and misery of the world...
Easter Sunday marked the 160th Lindsborg Messiah. Still singing fervently with the sopranos was Alma Swensson, 76, who with her late husband founded the Lindsborg festivals 54 years ago. Alma Swensson was 22 when she sent East for copies of Messiah, corralled a few eager pupils and taught them the great oratorio measure by measure. When her festivals were 27 years old the great Lillian Nordica was a soloist and in Lindsborg that occasion has become legendary. The enchanted choristers pulled her carriage through the streets, received in return roses from her bouquet. One youth planted his bloom...
...Miller was preparing for his M. A. examinations at Catholic University when the War broke out. By the time his classmates were getting themselves fitted for graduating gowns, Mr. Miller was wearing an infantry lieutenant's uniform. He served with the 89th Division in France, later with the 160th U. S. Infantry Brigade. Back in Washington after the War, he operated three small cinema houses while studying for the foreign service at Georgetown...