Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Travers, Saratoga race-goers will have two more weeks in which to enjoy the contest for riding honors between two crack jockeys, 19-year-old Coucci, contract rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Meade who rides for Colonel Bradley. Feature stake races for 2-year-olds in the last two weeks of the meet will be the Sanford, the Grand Union Hotel and the Hopeful. In these are entered Boxthorn and Balladier who have this year helped to make Colonel Bradley the leading owner at the track. They will run against Mrs. Payne Whitney's Plat...
...Gerald (Colin Clive) who beats his wife with a riding crop; Lady Clare (Diana Wynyard) who leaves him in Ceylon?and young Tony Croom (Frank Lawton), who meets Lady Clare on the boat to London and falls violently in love with her. In London, Lady Clare and Tony Croom enjoy each other's company ecstatically but not improperly. Nonetheless, when Sir Gerald sets a detective on their trail, he finds them dozing together in an old Ford roadster. The result is an action for divorce which makes one of the most striking courtroom scenes of the season...
...halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley Dumas, convicted of raping and mutilating white girls. When some citizens protested his gushy enjoyment, Judge Gassaway reviewed the case from the bench, cited the heinous nature of the crime, the fact that he was himself the father of four daughters. He wound...
...Judge Albion W. Tourgee, publisher of the New York Continent ... is a presumptuous ass." ¶ "Mr. Edward T. Flynn, managing editor of the Herald, will probably enjoy a good vacation. . . . Lily Langtry's attentions to the handsome Mr. Flynn continue to be as marked as ever." ¶ "Mr. James Gordon Bennett . . . goes through life having 'as good a time as he can, according to his own ideas. . . . There are worse men in every dozen we meet...
Arriving at Harbin, the jumping off place for Manchukuo pioneer homesteaders, Mr. Nakaoka tut-tutted the idea that among the Japanese homesteaders he will enjoy any special prestige or influence because he was the very first person ever to assassinate a Japanese Premier, polishing off Premier Hara in 1921 for the now fashionable reason that he was "spineless...