Word: bay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calumet's greatest pair, while the same age (four) and the same height (16 hands), are poles apart in temperament and style. Citation is the class horse, a rugged bay that runs only as fast as he has to. "A Chinaman could train him," says Ben Jones. The only one he is hard on around the barn is his exercise boy; he gets his head low in morning gallops and just about pulls his rider's arms out of their sockets. He is a glutton for feed...
Back of these stars Ben Jones & Co. have a flashy crop of two-year-olds, neatly named as usual by Mrs. Warren Wright. One is Shine Boy, a bay colt whose Calumet Farm report card carries these impressive comments: "Extremely great hay-eater . . . has everything a good horse needs." Another is a fiery chestnut named Urgent: "top Blenheim II colt." Nevertheless, Ben Jones suspects that when Derby Day, 1950, rolls around, a brown son of Bull Lea may be the colt to beat. His name: All Blue...
...declining years-to spend in his suite at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, in his $7,000-a-year apartment in one of Jersey City's few good residential sections, in his $125,000 Deal (N.J.) summer home, or in his $100,000 winter home on Biscayne Bay. Doubtless old Frank Hague also had some pleasant memories...
Americans liked the kindly, unassuming intellectual who was Brazil's Emperor -and he liked them. He sampled Cincinnati's beer, explored Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, compared San Francisco's Golden Gate to Rio's mountain-girt Guanabara Bay. In Boston he had long talks with Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier; when he came back to the Philadelphia exposition, Alexander Graham Bell showed him his newly invented telephone. "My God," said Dom Pedro, "it talks...
R.S.V.P. In Santa Monica, Calif., police had no trouble tracking down Allen Levoff, suspected of robbing the Bay Cities Transit Co. safe: he had dropped his wallet containing his felon's identification card near the office...