Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among breeders, owners, trainers and jockeys, who devote their money and energy to other thoroughbreds for the express purpose of beating Native Dancer, there are those who half hope that they will not succeed, so great is their reverence for the horse. On the day of his most recent race, the Big Grey walked majestically into the paddock at the head of a parade of nine entries. Wealthy Horseman Jock Whitney, owner of the No. 2 choice in the betting, gazed admiringly not at his own Straight Face but at the Dancer. "f any one beats him. I hope...
...invited to attend a brief ceremony in the faculty room at University Hall on Thursday, May 27, at 4:30 o'clock. This gathering is to express the Faculties' appreciation of the spirit, character, and courage of the Governors and Administrators of Harvard in dealing with many challenges to the integrity of the University and its Faculties over the recent years...
...McCarthy's popularity increased or decreased as a result of his televised battle with the Army? Last week the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported the results of a poll in which readers were asked to express their feelings about McCarthy before and since the hearings. The paper asked readers to clip a questionnaire, which more than 7,000 (49% men, 51% women) mailed in. Results...
...News. But after the Bolsheviks seized control from the Kerensky government, he quickly became disillusioned with the revolution and fled to China. There he worked for English-language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies (e.g., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, London Daily Express). At the same time he was also paid by the Chinese government to develop its information service. Back in the U.S., in 1935 he began a column of political punditry in the New York Herald Tribune, switched to the Sun and later to the Hearst chain. While writing his column...
...full glory as Privy Councillor, Master of the Horse, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, a Minister of State, Buckingham was so haughty that not Charles himself escaped the great duke's disdain. When he was really exasperated by the royal indolence, Buckingham could express himself excellently in light verse...