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...arteries, heart disease and acute alcoholism; in Manhattan. Retired from business, he was famed as the owner of many a great horse. In 1925 his Coventry and Flying Ebony (Earl Sande up) won two great races, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby. In the past year his string (including Epithet, The Beasel, Flying Heels) won $147,920. In racing and in polo he was an associate of the late Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 3). Afflicted last year with tuberculosis, he was reported cured, was found dead alone in the vestibule of his apartment early one morning last week...
Next day at Dodge City Chairman Legge, referring to Kansas as the largest U. S. wheat producing State, declared: "The biggest hog will always lie in the trough. Kansas is now in its trough." By the time he had reached Amarillo, Tex., Kansas was up in arms at his epithet. Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, wired President Hoover that his Farm Board Chairman had "insulted 1.850.000 people," demanded Mr. Legge's resignation. To Chairman Legge they telegraphed...
...from operating a concession recently obtained (at Yellow's expense) from the Furness-Bermuda Line, Pier 95, North River. Last week Counsel Henry B. Hogan for General Motors denied all charges, affirmed that the Yellow contract with the Furness-Bermuda Line had been merely verbal, chose the epithet "cry babies...
...Pink and White" was an Homeric epithet attached to Randolph Church, 18, son of Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a slashing philippic which he delivered in the Oxford Union on the Labor Party's "weak" policy in Egypt (TIME...
...many years have passed since angry Cromwellians flung toward Rome the horrid epithet "Whore of Babylon," that even English Protestants were shocked and horrified last week when the official Soviet news-organ Pravda applied to Pope Pius a much milder epithet, "Heavenly Liar...