Word: epsom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord's-the Marylebone Club playing teams from the Army, R.A.F., the Fire Brigade, etc. And at Newmarket, 70 miles from London, 50,000 Britons, disregarding the Government's "stay put" order, swarmed together for the second wartime running of the classic Derby-normally held at Epsom Downs, nearer London...
Derby-goers missed Epsom's flower-decked grandstands, the grey-toppered swells, fortunetelling gypsies and wigwagging ticktack men (scouts for bookies). But nothing was missing in the race itself. Favorite in the field of 21 three-year-olds was the Duke of Westminster's Lambert Simnel, winner of last spring's Two Thousand Guineas. Sentimental favorite was Fairy Prince, owned by Lieut. F. T. Williams, a war prisoner somewhere in Germany...
...Hotel last week ambled two cows, two horses, five sheep, seven dogs, a covey of Congressmen. At the far end of the ballroom a tier of seats was jammed with spectators. On the sawdust-sprinkled floor, a man in white moved into a spotlight to pour several gallons of Epsom salts through a tube into a cow's stomach. The show was no circus, but a serious scientific meeting-one of the clinical sessions of the American Veterinary Association's annual convention...
Bred and owned by His Highness The Aga Khan, Bahram had never been defeated. As a three-year-old, he won England's famed "triple crown" (the Epsom Derby, Two Thousand Guineas and St. Leger Stakes)-something that only 13 other thoroughbreds had accomplished during 130 years of British horse racing. At stud, Bahram's blood lines were important to British racing. But last month, when the Nazis confiscated the French branch of the Aga Khan's fabulous stable, the Indian potentate, stranded on a Swiss Alp (TIME, Aug. 19), decided to sell his priceless Bahram...
...Prinney," as the Prince was called, had a spoiled passion for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert (once, when near death from nerves, hangovers and bloodletting, he wrote a soulful will in her favor), and a funning relationship with catty Lady Jersey. It amused Lady Jersey to put Epsom salts in Caroline's food during the royal honeymoon. After their separation, the Prince indulged his hatred of Caroline by keeping her from their child, Charlotte. Caroline proceeded to mother every unattached infant she could lay her hands on, adopting one "Willikins" who turned out half-witted. In fits of raffish...