Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at Pimlico the fans got their money's worth. After the first furlong Cravat was out of the running: it was Challedon and Kayak. Challedon went into the lead; halfway down the backstretch Kayak caught him, poked his brown nose farther & farther ahead as they streaked along against a backdrop of autumn foliage. As they rounded into the homestretch, Jockey Eddie Arcaro flipped his whip and Challedon began to run like a Halloween hooligan. He inched past Kayak and won going away, a half length in front at the wire...
Fortnight ago, in the fourth play of the game against Brown, Don Herring, big Princeton tackle, son of one of Princeton's football immortals, was badly hurt. A Brown blocker crashed into him, and his left knee snapped backward so violently the main blood vessel was torn. For six days doctors did what they could, finally told him they would have to amputate his leg just above the knee. "O. K.," said Don Herring, "go ahead." Next day he listened to the play-by-play account of the game in which his teammates nosed out Harvard...
Mother-confessor to more than 100,000 lonely, thwarted, trouble-burdened citizens of Detroit is white-haired, childless Nancy Brown, who writes a daily column of domestic advice for the Detroit News...
...Nancy Brown at 69 is small, gentle, spry. Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...
...three years ago Nancy found in her mail a letter suggesting that Belle Isle should have a carillon for her sunrise services. Nancy thought it was a nice idea, printed the letter. Next day came an anonymous donation of $1 toward the bells. Thereupon Nancy Brown began to reflect: a carillon must have at least 23 bells and a tower in which to mount them would cost anywhere from...