Word: blenheims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deacon. While he danced spryly at night clubs, she has stayed at home. When they gave receptions last winter he frequently stood alone at the head of the stairs. During the recent London Season he lived alone at the Ritz Hotel, gave big week-end parties without her at Blenheim Castle.* Socialites assume that a second Marlborough divorce is imminent...
...Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills (no kin to Jockey Mills) and his sister, Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, quickly bought Hank Mills's contract for $7,500. This year, Jockey Mills has had 779 mounts, 169 winners, 141 seconds.* He won the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps with Blenheim, the Shevlin Stakes on Faireno. the Potomac Handicap with Dark Secret. Jockeys seldom worry about their weight until they are 20 or more. Small, pink-faced Hank Mills gained 8 Ib. this year, now weighs 98. He has broad shoulders and long strong arms. Famed for bringing in outsiders...
Vexed by motorists who speed on the private roads in the ground of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, had sharp bumps built into the straightaways which no driver would be inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...
...Most spectacular of last year's sweepstakes winners were Daniel Dougherty, apartment house doorman and his sons Edward P., 20, and Daniel Jr., 23, Brooklyn broker's clerks who won $149,262 on Blenheim. In reporting their ridiculous doings-which included a trip to Canada, family bickerings, $10 for a luncheon check-TIME (June 16, 1930) promised to report the Dougherty financial status a year later. Last week, the two Dougherty sons were still broker's clerks, still lived in Brooklyn with Father Dougherty, now retired. Each had invested his money in stocks which had not gone...
Through the crowd to Blenheim's bridle elbowed a stout, swarthy man in morning clothes, top hat and thick glasses-the Aga Khan III, spiritual head of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans. Unperturbed by his religious responsibilities, he lives in France with his young French wife, daughter of a middleclass, provincial businessman, and raises thoroughbreds. "Proudest moment of my life" said he. "But you know, I didn't have a shilling...