Word: ascots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's regattas, Oxford's Eights Week was one of the most picturesque and peculiar. Sandwiched into the London social calendar between Ascot and the Henley regatta, it marked the end of the University's summer term with a gala, six-day series of intramural crew races-not ordinary crew races but an Oxford specialty known as bumping races...
...Mexicans have always preferred bullfighting. In the '80s, when racing reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., Mexicans caught the fever for a while. Mexico City's Condesa race track, which flourished under President Porfirio Diaz, had the pomp of England's royal Ascot...
Married. Mary Morrison, 20, only child of Britain's cockatoo-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison; and Horace Williams, son of forthright, Ascot-tied Labor M.P. and joint Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture Tom Williams; in London...
...custom-tailored neckties. It was rumored that he changed his ties six times a day. His conduct was motivated by a great principle: find out what suits you and always wear it. Berry Wall usually wore capes and coats of horse-blanket plaid, high horse-collars cinched with lush Ascot cravats. Sometimes he changed into one of his crimson satin lounging suits to lead one of his chows, always named either Chi Chi or Toi Toi, through the streets of Paris. Though Berry Wall was born in Manhattan (1861), where he was a society swell...
Died. Richard H. Otto, 59, executive of Brooks Brothers clothing store; of the effects of an operation; in Manhattan. Foremost expert in tying fashionable ascot ties, Cravateer Otto knotted wedding neckpieces for Astors, Rockefellers, Roosevelts, Wanamakers, Morgans; in a single June once tied 105 ascots...