Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, was Bernard M. Baruch's two-year-old filly. Watch Her. At the barrier. Watch Her succeeded in throwing her jockey, Tony Pascuma. She ran riderless down the chute which cuts across the infield, then twice around the 1½-mi. track, and finally, before anyone could catch her, jumped a fence and started toward her stable. A mounted policeman caught her running toward the third jump on a nearby steeplechase course, brought her back to the post. By this time-32 minutes after the horses had first lined up-bookmakers who expected that she would...
...supplement, then to a whole magazine. Many are the stories documenting Publisher Curtis' belief in advertising. Before the Satevepost earned a penny he had poured $1,000,000 into it, largely in advertising and promotion. Once he bought a full page in the New York Sun to catch the eye of a big potential advertiser in Manhattan who had refused to listen to Curtis advertising salesmen. Of patent medicine advertising, Publisher Curtis would have none, and once in the old days, when there was no money to meet the month's payrolls, he is said to have returned...
...lady. In her case a boat was there and caught the 'chute which did not get wet. The other time the operator was so close to shore a farmer pulled the 'chute out with a fence rail- a stick about 14 ft. long. I had a rider catch his 'chute on a cornice and swing into a lawyer's office window on the second floor, and the bag came down on the high tension wires which of course destroyed it and put several towns in darkness. I also had a lady rider come down on some...
...Harold Louderback. charged by the House with abusing his judicial powers in bankruptcy cases. Evidence against him was diffuse and contradictory. His own vehement denials of wrong-doing were impressively detailed. Of the five counts against him. he won easy acquittals on the first four. On the fifth, a catch-all charge of general misconduct, 45 out of 79 Senators found him guilty. That was not enough to convict. The prosecution lacked eight votes of the necessary two-thirds majority. His puffy face wrinkled with smiles. Judge Louderback had his hand pumped by Huey Long, said he would take...
...Mare's. When he had twitched off the cassock of St. Paul's Cathedral Choir School he went to a high stool in the London office of Anglo-American Oil Co., spent 18 years there ploughing barren columns of figures. To overcome his environment and catch his Muse's eye, young de la Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books he wrote three of his own: Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken...