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...hats and soft hats mingled in cosmopolitan proximity as a crowd both smart and representative of all the provinces of Canada made the merry best of a damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...
...steeplechases. By plane, motor, train, boat, cart they came and, despite fabled post-War depression, proved so numerous that luxurious Cunard liner Aurania, 14,000 tons, lying at her dock, became an ephemeral hostelry at a, guinea "and up" per bunk, thus saving many an onlooker from a damp night on the moors or pub floors. The morning brought black skies, torrential rains. Sporting Eng land, drenched, excited, gathered at the famed Aintree course; issued 150,000 prayers for better weather; surveyed the soggy turf and swollen streams with misgivings: hoped their favorites liked...
...massive moulder of mortar and manipulator of men reclined uncomfortably upon a pile of boards and twitched slightly from unavoidable rheumatism. "Besides, it's too damp in here: I'm gettin" so I can't walk I'm so tied...
...some U. S. citizens feel a disloyal gratitude, for it was he who led Ontario Wets to victory at the last election (TIME, Dec. 13), and it is from soon-to-be-wringing-wet Ontario that numberless little boats will push off next spring across the Great Lakes with damp cargoes for the Middle West. Therefore when Premier Ferguson made a public pronouncement last week he was well heeded...
Since he bought his first ship in 1889 Owen Cosby Philipps, now Lord Kylsant, has pioneered in everything that would get ships faster across the damp places and keep their human cargoes warm and dry, and their cargoes of foodstuffs dry and cold. He pushed the adoption of a twin propeller drive. He was ahead with refrigerator cargo ships, reaping millions from frozen Argentine beef. All his life he could have said with Kipling's shipmaster of his competitors: They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, And I left 'em sweating...