Word: earling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memoriam, considered an outsider, wore down Harry F. Sinclair's international champion Zev, passed him at the head of the stretch, to win by six lengths. Jockey Earl Sande is said to have flagrantly disobeyed orders in forcing Zev to the front in the opening rush and trying to hold him there through the 1¾-mile race-the longest Zev had ever run. Zev settled the My Own controversy by leading Admiral Grayson's three-year-old four lengths across the line. Thirty thousand natives of the Blue Grass went wild at the victory of In Memoriam...
...case was tried before a judge (no jury) and the decision was against the husband. But before the decision could be signed, the judge was elevated to a higher bench, and the case had to be retried. It is now on trial before a jury. The man was William Earl Dodge Stokes; and his wife, Helen Elwood Stokes. It is estimated that they have spent over $1,000,000 on the case. They cover each other with mud. The public applauds...
...whenever one of them crossed his path after he had discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes, William Earl Dodge Stokes at the vortex of a veritable whirlpool of crimes, of allegations of brazen corruption and almost unbelievable perjury, all directed at Helen Elwood Stokes, his present wife...
...York World, ever sensitive to the limits of public gullibility, published two stories on last week's horse race. One was "BY STEVE DONOGHUE, England's Greatest Jockey (As told to 0. H. P. Garrett of The World)"; the other was "BY EARL SANDE, America's Leading Jockey (As told to G. F. T. Ryall of The World...
...Earl Sande, Zev's jockey: "Never at any stage of the race was I worried...