Word: ascot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winston Churchill & wife returned to London from a two-week holiday on the Riviera, traveled to the Ascot Heath race track a few days later, got there just in time to see his filly, Loving Cup, finish next to last in the Kensington Palace Stakes...
...wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...
Renzo Cesana who, as The Continental, appears twice a week over Los Angeles' station KNBH. He purrs at his admirers in a sex-laden. Boyer-esque voice, enhancing his determinedly un-American manner with a monocle and ascot tie. He is surrounded by such emblems of the lady-killer as Chinese prints, a library of love lyrics and magnums of champagne...
Pickets in Ascot Ties. Pierce Brothers claimed to be the first in the U.S. to advertise low-price funerals, first to send motorcycle escorts with the casket coach (nobody any longer calls them hearses in the profession) and first (outside New York itself) to embalm 6,000 remains in a year. In 50 peppy years of growth, it has dedicated a main mortuary with 20 "reposing rooms" (all named for famous authors) and 13 cheerful branch plants to the uplifting or happy funeral. But last week, gloom, finally came to Pierce Brothers, and moved to Forest Lawn...
...A.F.L. International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers). Then-Pierce Brothers complained-they mischievously switched the routing tag on a casket and sent a loved one to the wrong service. And on top of that, 19 of them (simply because they had been fired) began picketing Pierce funerals in Ascot ties and morning coats-apparel which contrasted nicely with their strikers' signs...