Word: becher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lough Conn, a 33-to-1 shot from Ireland, led most of the way, as he had last year until he fell at treacherous Becher's Brook. At the last few jumps, up moved Caughoo, 100-to-1 (202½-to-1 on the tote), an Irish eight-year-old with a jockey who had never ridden the Aintree course before. Caughoo (who cost Dublin Jeweler J. J. McDowell $200 as an unbroken juvenile) finished 20 lengths out front. The fog was so thick that most of the 300,000 in the crowd had to read about the race...
...Shaw's amusement, they earn a measure of his respect. But he is mainly in the mood for high jinks, and toward the end the lion is all he needs to turn the whole thing into a circus. Androcles (Ernest Truex) waltzes gaily with the lion (John Becher); Caesar is first chased by it and then takes the credit for taming it; and at the last he orders all his followers to turn Christian...
Cultural Correctives. For the reeducation of the Germans, two other organizations were also formed in Berlin: 1) the League of Culture for the Democratic Regeneration of Germany (whose executive committee consisted of Johannes R. Becher, Communist poet, and three non-Communists); 2) The Youth Council for the Eradication of Fascism (whose secretary is Heinz Kessler, member of the Free Germany Committee and one of its propagandists on the central Russian war front). The outstanding feature of these organizations was the collaboration of Communists and Social Democrats-traditional political enemies...
...Cholly Knickerbocker ticketed Diana as Personality Deb of the Year, swore she could have outstripped blazing Brenda as Glamor Girl if she had half tried. Diana palled around with Brenda a little, was reported engaged to Anthony Duke, Francis Kellogg, Harry Ellerbee (whom she called Poopsie), Sir William Wrixon-Becher, and a convoy of others, including Actor Bramwell Fletcher. Last summer, yes-she married...
...starters cleared the first jump, the second, the third. Then they began to tumble. At hair-raising Becher's Brook, Royal Danieli took the lead, kept it round the right-angle Canal Turn, over Valentine's Brook, down the backstretch, past the stands the first time around. At Becher's Brook, on the second circuit, he was still in front, with MacMoffat and James Neill's 50-to-1 shot Gold Arrow close behind. It looked as if the old Aintree jinx on favorites was not working...