Word: ascot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dressed in a faultless blue suit with a white carnation in his buttonhole, pearl spats and ascot tie, he strode into court, announced thai! he had come to settle the whole affair by paying out of his own pocket Mrs. Brown's $6,500 claim, her $6,000 lawyer's fee. A gratifying uproar filled the court...
Died. Henry H. Colpus, 76, who claimed to be the firstborn (illegitimate) son of King Edward VII of England; in St. Petersburg,. Fla. His story: "My mother ... a young widow ... on her way to the Ascot races . . . was passing through Windsor Park alone when she met the young Prince [of Wales] She did not go to the races at all. He took her away. . . . My mother was a Quakeress and she felt that it was a spiritual marriage. But... he could not acknowledge her as his wife because he was the Prince of Wales. She wept and he gave...
April is the month when England freshens herself for a new season, when showers brighten the turf at Ascot and Epsom and wandering Britons are homesick. April, too, is the month when His Majesty's Government gives a significant demonstration of its democratic character: in April the Chancellor of the Exchequer appears before a crowded House of Commons to "open" the budget, i. e., to ask the people's representatives to vote the taxes which the people will have to pay. Last April Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon appeared before the Commons with the highest peacetime...
...world's most renowned regatta is the English yachting festival known as Cowes Week. Held on the Solent, between the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the wooded southern shore of the mainland, Cowes is to yachting what Wimbledon is to tennis, what Ascot is to horse racing, what Hurlingham is to polo, what Lord's is to cricket...
Fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1902, William Woodward was introduced to racing at Ascot and Newmarket while working in London as secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph Choate. In 1910, on the death of his uncle, Banker James T. Woodward, young Bill inherited not only controlling interest in Manhattan's Hanover National Bank, but also the famed Belair Stud, a 3,000-acre farm at Collington, Prince Georges County, Md., close by the spot where his paternal ancestors first settled...