Word: beget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jockey Club and probably the most influential owner currently active on the U. S. turf. His Gallant Fox won the Kentucky Derby in 1930. went on to become for a time the greatest U. S. money horse ($328,165) and, by siring Omaha, the third derby winner to beget another derby winner. Tall, quiet, courteous, Mr. Woodward grew so excited during Gallant Fox's three-year-old campaign that he lost co Ib. He plans to start Omaha on a similar campaign with the Preakness this week at Pimlico, near the Belair stud where Woodward horses are raised along...
...William Randolph Hearst's confidence more completely than anyone ever has 'before. To him the 71 -year-old publisher is a "great American," a real Progressive, an unappreciated genius, a master of English prose, an extravagant, wilful client. But Lawyer Neylan's intense loyalties never beget humility. No yessing Hearstling, he some-times lectures Mr. Hearst as if he were a small boy. Visitors at the Hearst castle at San Simeon tell of the wistful note in the querulous Hearst voice: "I'd like to buy it, but Mr. Neylan...
...beget quintuplets seems to Father Ovila Dionne a private and personal achievement whose profits properly belong to him. On the contrary, thinks Ontario's Liberal Government, it is a public achievement of Society, as represented by Dr. Allan Dafoe who delivered and reared them, the U. S. newspapers that sent a hot-water incubator* and saved their lives, the Northern Ontario businessmen who built the modern Dionne nursery heated against Northern Ontario's -30° winter weather...
...difference between a Siamese and anybody else is that the Siamese takes things more easily. It was easy for the late, great King Rama V to beget 236 girls, 134 boys. It was easy for his successor King Rama VI to take the word of a Christian missionary that polygamy is wrong and beget no boy. This plumped the Crown into the lap of a son of polygamous Rama V who became King Prajadhipok ten years ago and abdicated in England last week with the greatest of ease...
That RealmleaderHitler, still a bachelor at 45, now intends to beget instead of appoint his successor is common report in Berlin.* Many a credulous Berliner has heard the story that Handsome Adolf said recently to a male intimate: "I shall marry a German woman of the noblest blood. But whom? So many are all around me with their hopes in their eyes...