Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of photographs published last fortnight by the London Daily Express, showing Golden Miller, favorite in the Grand National Steeplechase, clearing the first fence after Valentine's Brook while his jockey, for no apparent reason, fell off, thus saving British bookmakers almost $10,000,000, a likely sequel was revealed last week...
...Miss Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller that the odds against him were only 2-to-1. lowest in Grand National history. Turf experts estimated that British bookmakers would lose $9,600,000 if Golden Miller won. The knot of people at the first fence after Valentine's Brook, one of the easiest on the course, last week saw Golden Miller's jockey, Gerry Wilson, fall off. To the crowd this event was a calamity. Next day it became a national scandal when the London Daily Express published, pointedly without comment, a series of pictures of Golden Miller...
...wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
Alec (the "I" of the story) is a rich man's son, nearing 40 but still with no visible means of support other than periodic parental checks. A member of The Brook, most select of Manhattan clubs (where there are "always amusing fellows . . . ready for anything"), Alec divides his time between his country estate and the pleasures of town. He is married to a beautiful wife, but they are just pals. Alec not only has good looks (he was called "Adonis" at Yale but was somehow popular), but also a fatal charm. He knows a lot about animals, rides...
...social event, on field, track or ballroom floor, fail to mention the presence of the William Goadby Loews.* Mr. Loew stemmed from the ancient & honorable Manhattan Goadbys and his father was once comptroller of the City of New YorK. He is a member of a dozen clubs including the Brook, the Creek and the River. Mrs. Florence ("Queenie") Loew was the daughter of the late great George Fisher Baker...