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...Burrrrzipppp! The clerk touched an electric key, and, exactly like a U. S. movie ticket machine, the tote poked out a ticket for Suada, value of one guinea. Fingering this novel pasteboard, puffing his pale Havana, George V walked back to the Royal Box with Suada's owner, his son-in-law, the spidery-limbed Earl of Harewood, spouse of Princess Mary. In the fourth race Royalty's loping Suada was almost lost among the last of the also-rans, and lost with it was the King's guinea. A genial loser, George V discreetly made known that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Rooks, King & Tote | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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