Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, like their parents before them: Jiggs can't stand his wife's friends, lives in daily fear of her well-aimed rolling pin and crockery, but will never hit back. And there will never be a continued story in Jiggs. Says McManus: "I give 'em...
...sank 'em in the lowland lonesome...
Because Gordon Richards did such things as ride twelve winners in twelve races, British bookies once balked at taking bets on his mounts. At 41, Jockey Richards was still up and at 'em last week, and his wrists and knees were still persuasive enough to boot home the winner in Newmarket's Icklingham Stakes. It was his 3,000th win in 25 seasons. (Britain's Sam Heapy holds the world's record, 3,620 wins; Johnny Longden leads all U.S. jockeys with...
...attending a board meeting. As Senior Vice Chairman Francis Shaw Baer droned through figures describing the bank's condition, old "A.P." fidgeted like a school boy with two fingers raised. Suddenly he jumped up, pounded the table and roared: "For God's sake, Franny, give 'em the big news...
...think, this Lewis kind of put you and me and this place on the map. He certainly is a funny bird, but it's like in sales-pulling letters, you can give the clients the lovey-dovey stuff or you can give 'em the old one-two. Red Lewis gives 'em the old one-two. So they give him $500,000. That's just sound business practice. Maybe Lewis wasn't so dumb after all. He certainly knew where the duck was going to fall...