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...Citation had carried 130 lbs., Miche 114. Said Jimmy Jones: "I've raced horses long enough to know that nobody stays in the handicap division and keeps the record clean. That goes for Man o' War too.* Citation will be lucky if he wins half of 'em from now on." Others thought that Jockey Brooks had shipped his whip too soon, that a jock like cagey Eddie Arcaro might have ridden the big horse home in front. Since Eddie had not yet signed for a mount in the Santa Anita Handicap, some even speculated that he might...
...right, fellows," said a hoarse voice. "Stick 'em up and don't move." The men looked up to see the business ends of six short-nosed revolvers. Behind the guns were six men in grotesque rubber Halloween masks, chauffeurs' caps and Navy peacoats. "Oh, my God!" groaned Cashier Thomas B. Lloyd. At the gang leader's command, Lloyd ordered a clerk to open a mesh door into the vault room...
...farmer who clings to his own land is denied such benefits as improved seeds, fertilizers, and easy credits. He cannot em ploy labor outside his family. If his resistance is especially fierce, he is classified as a "negative individual" and a kulak. He is driven to the wall by such devices as government production quotas deliberately made so high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog...
...SHINER, in fine long letters cut in it." He takes pictures of the grave, "and a heat of grief bit into him." He looks up, past "doves flying white in the blue," and prays, "Oy, you want to watch out. There ain't all that many of 'em. Please. Look after old Shiner. Hear...
...happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine, "and took hold of my teeth and tried to yank 'em and I let her. She was sure surprised when nothing gave." Before the division left Melbourne most of the men "were in some stage of a serious love affair with an Australian girl...