Word: ben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America, Zev and My Own were beaten by In Memoriam, a 10-to-1 shot, at Latonia; in France, Epinard, three-year-old whom the French called the "best horse in the world," lost by a head to Verdict at Newmarket; in England, Papyrus was sold by Owner Ben Irish...
...pool tournament, is not expected to compete this year. Individual stars are not, however, lacking. At billiards, I. S. Steinberg '25 is playing a fast balk line game, and in pool Isadore Shapiro Oec., who won the pool championship two years ago, is shooting in excellent form. According to "Ben" Laurie, professional player at the Union in charge of the two tournaments, on several occasions Shapiro has cleaned the table on a single turn of all 15 balls after they have been broken. He also stated that 25 to 40 runs in the 18 inch balk line billiards...
...respectively) indulged in a polite deadlock as to which of their colts deserved to run a mile and a half against Papyrus, pride of England, on Oct. 20 in the International Stakes at Belmont Park, L. I. Comment rippled over from England at the delay. Did the Americans think Ben Irish might pit his Papyrus against both colts ? With a match race agreed on? With $100,000 at stake...
...rarely is. It has served its purpose in making it possible for a number of conspicuously intelligent folk to perform conspicuously idiotic but wholly enthralling feats through 250 pages or more. One's enjoyment of the recent tale of murder and psychoanalysis, from the pen of Mr. Ben Hecht, is neither augmented nor impaired by the eventual disentanglement of its complexities. It is the quaint, initial assassination itself, the atmosphere of brooding horror, the haunted eyes of De Medici, that fling the reader of The Florentine Dagger (TIME, Sept. 3) into a bewildered Nirvana of goose flesh and insomnia...
There was such bickering over the financial arrangements that various Englishmen complained that Ben Irish, owner, was spelling sport with a dollar sign. They also averred that the race is a plan to deprive England of the breeding value of Papyrus by selling him across the ocean. Irish has already refused $200,000 for the horse...