Word: astors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day, the King's horse Aloysia won the Queen Mary's Stakes. The Coronation Stakes were captured by Lord Astor's Saucy Sue and the all-important Ascot Gold Cup with a money prize of $20,000 was carried off by Andrew Barclay Walker's Santorh, ridden by that most famed of British jockeys, Steve Donoghue, six times a winner of the Derby...
...whip, with which he flicks the ash from a cigaret, disarms a swordsman, climbs a balcony, tears a marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again. Fascinating, agile Spanish hero, Don Cesar clears himself of the charge of murdering an Archduke, wins the lovely Dolores de Muro (Mary Astor), plays the double part of father and son in a battle against 15. The picture is photographically perfect, splendidly cast, full of thrills...
Altogether, the House of Lords behaved with too much gayety in the face of this stupendous bill for the emancipation of the male. Perhaps they feared that Lady Astor would soon make good her threat to make the House of Lords co-educational, and so decided to have their little fling at a woman while they could...
Born. To Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky, Russian prince who claims descent from Rurik, founder of the Russian Monarchy, and Princess Obolensky (Alice Muriel Astor, daughter of the late John Jacob Astor), a son. The Prince's first wife was a daughter of Tsar Alexander...
CRAY H. MOSEDALE According to the Book of Daniel Drew, he (Drew) sold watered stock to Henry Astor-but there is only Drew's word for it. Some regard all versions of the origin of "watered stock" as semi-mythological since the term "watered jury" (corrupt jurors) was in use as early...