Word: blenheims
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...news made Dougherty a name to conjure with in Brooklyn.* Edward P. Dougherty, 19, shiny-haired, tight-collared, $20-per-week clerk in a broker's office, paid $1 for a ticket in the Canadian Army & Navy Veterans' Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. The ticket drew Blenheim, won $149,262. Edward P. Dougherty told the news to his father, Daniel, an apartment house doorman, and his brother Daniel Jr., another broker's clerk. Instantly, in their four-room apartment, they fell to arguing...
...laid a yellow span on the midway-a span that moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack-Blenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer. Surely, easily, Blenheim, ridden by Harry Wragg, who won the Derby in 1928 with Felstead, crept up, then moved in front, by a shadow, by a nose, then by a good length, crossed the line, with Iliad second, Diolite a staggering, gasping third...
...executive committee when the convention only declared: "We stand for racial integrity and while official relations must be maintained, we deplore any social relationship between whites and blacks." Later, as the convention was going home, it was disturbed to hear that President Hoover had appointed as postmaster at Blenheim, Va., one Thornton Nightingale, Negro Republican...
...Wood Eaton, sleeping beside a little stream that winds in and out of coppices and fields; and going farther in this direction one comes to Islip, Noke, the grand sweep of Otmoor, and the leafy vale of the Thame. Going north from Oxford, one can visit Woodstock and stately Blenheim; or, if one is awed by this great place, one can turn a little to the west to the pretty villages and rich hills and vales watered by the Evenlode. Following the winding roads and hedges, now crossing streams, now going through woods, seeing here a country house, there...
...Duke of Marlborough, Baron Spencer, Baron Churchill, Earl of Sunderland, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Prince of Mindelheim in Suabia, Knight of the Garter, descendant of "England's greatest general" John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), the victor of Blenheim...