Word: donning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The dignity of the Indoor Athletic Building suffered a severe shock recently when a large laundry truck parked outside the building. On its side was painted a large safety pin and beneath it, the motto "We like to wash them. You don't." The truck was a messenger of the...
". . " If we don't have a war" was the world's keynote last week, struck by the President of the U. S. (TIME, April 17). Actions & reactions in the U. S. followed one another in rapid succession.
Most publicized jockey of the year is cocky little Don Meade. Reinstated last December by the Florida Racing Commission after a three-year suspension for betting against his own mounts, Jockey Meade, 1933 Kentucky Derby winner, made a sensational comeback this winter, booted home 91 winners at Hialeah and Tropical...
Last spring young Oros rode his first winner-at the Aurora race track. This winter, still an "apprentice," he outrode his most experienced rivals at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, then moved on to Bowie to lead the field there as well. Last week, on closing day at Bowie...
Hailed last week as the "Aurora Flash" and sought as a contract rider, baby-faced Johnny Oros, as bashful and unsophisticated as Don Meade is arrogant and wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don...