Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kins '56. This number-one Australian...
...last race before going to stud; at Yonkers, N.Y. The victory, worth $6,750, increased Good Time's record earnings to $318,792.86. ¶Jockey Tony Despirito, 17, his 300th race this season, the eighth American rider ever to turn the trick; at Salem, N.H. Cf Australian Open Golf Champion Norman Von Nida, a playoff, 72-77, over the U.S.'s Ed ("Porky") Oliver, in the $7,840 Ampol Tournament; at Sydney...
...remainder counter, Hardcaster nonetheless loads them up with atrocity yarns and heroic bilge till they glow with vicarious martyrdom. In but not of the circle of worshippers is a rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good pennies. Victor is a down & cut Australian painter who has sunk to faking Van Goghs in an Old Masters "factory." Margot, his common-law wife, is a girl with a one-tract mind-not the Communist Manifesto but Victor's welfare. But Victor's Marxist pals have little use for the dialectic of true love. They...
What keeps The Revenge for Love from sharing the same shelf as Darkness at Noon is not lack of skill. It is the moral lint from Lewis' erstwhile infatuation with Hitler. References to Australian aborigines as "Blackboys," Hindus as "Baboos," and the Jews martyred by Nazi Germany as "offending Jews," shows that while Wyndham Lewis was rocking the cradle of humanism with one hand, he was cradling a rock of bigotry in the other...
...destination of the guarded man was a bleak chain of coral reefs and windblown wastes inhabited by lizards and black rats-the Monte Bello Islands, off the northwest coast of Australia. There, while planes crisscrossed overhead and a flotilla of eleven Australian warships plied the nearby sea to keep the curious away, Britain last week made its great gamble...