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...there were who did not know what the Biscuit had gone through. Ugly-duckling grandson of glamorous Man o' War, Seabiscuit had been sent out to race 35 times when he was only two years old. Not much as a breadwinner, he was put in a Saratoga claiming race when he was three, but no one thought he was worth $6,000. Shortly afterward, the sturdy little bay caught the eye of San Francisco Automan Charles S. Howard, who bought...
...promises. Dissatisfaction flamed. O'Daniel's impeachment on a technicality was proposed, to permit calling of a tax session of the legislature by Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson. A more lyrical O'Daniel promise was next impeached: His campaign song, Please Pass The Biscuits, Pappy, was bitterly recalled by a critic who dashed off a sarcastic rejoinder, Biscuit-Cutting Blues (tune: Shortenin' Bread...
...Loves biscuit bread...
...biscuit...
...Eton's boys the war was proving rather a rag. They carried their gasmasks in biscuit tins which the school had sensibly bought from a bakery for threepence each. The boys were excused from wearing toppers on campus (but not off), because high hats would congest the school air-raid shelter. Each boy could keep one book, also chocolate, in the shelter. But the famed pack of Eton beagles was to be reduced, for economy, from eleven and a half to six and a half couples...