Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the wireless message and the Commander's message came the battle. Firing opened at 7,000 yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...
...Minnesota he designed a $4,500,000 classical Capitol of Georgia marble and granite, a 142-ft. rotunda. His Municipal Building in Waterbury. Conn, was pure colonial in brick and white marble. Detroit's white marble Public Library was Italian Renaissance. The Union Central Life Insurance Building in Cincinnati was a towering office building. The $10,000,000 West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston was Classic. In 1899 he won a competition with a French Renaissance rendering for a U. S. Customs House in Manhattan, moved to Manhattan shortly thereafter...
...nucleus of a small stable of 39 head, Trainer Smith stepped out in 1933 and proceeded to lay the foundations for a record which is now unequalled by any other horse-owning sportswoman in the history of U. S. turf. Beginning with Inlander's triumphs in the Arlington Classic and Travers Stakes last year, Mrs. Sloane's horses have won 19 important stakes, six of this year's big races: Florida Derby with Time Clock, Chesapeake Stakes and Kentucky Derby with Cavalcade, Wood Memorial and Preakness with High Quest, Toboggan with Okapi. Winnings...
...modern Pallas Athene, full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed is the latest news from the U. S. "intellectual" front. Far from being a funny...
...responsible for making the Derby the racing classic of the American continent also has the distinction of having seen every Derby ever run. In 1875, 14-year-old Matt Winn sat in his father's grocery wagon and watched Aristides win the race. Grocery Boy Matt Winn became Matt Winn, merchant tailor of Covington, Ky. Twenty years ago, Tailor Matt Winn became Colonel Matt J. Winn, racetrack manager. In 1914 he upped the Derby's purse, steadily began to ballyhoo the race into a social and sporting extravaganza. Now, 73, Colonel Winn as president of the American Turf...