Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter disappointment, even though the Army Air Corps had patiently explained that the 6-19 was built not so much for use as for experience in building big ships. Probably there will never be another 6-19, but the lore learned in her building will go into many a fancier ship...
Between 1866 and 1890 something like ten million Longhorns were marched out of Texas into the North and West. Within a few more years, railroads had made possible the shipping of fatter, fancier meat. The Longhorn was doomed...
...Irish Army officer named Dan Corry bought the little freak for $250, brought him to the U. S. in 1932 to compete in the military jumping events at the National Horse Show. The pony never went back to Ireland. Arthur Tolman. a New England horse fancier, took a fierce fancy to him, persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert...
...week the State Racing Commission, after five months' deliberation, sanctioned Jersey's first horse park since betting was outlawed in 1893. True to tradition, the operators of Jersey's first 20th-century race track will be the Monmouth Park Racing Association-a group headed by Horse Fancier Amory Lawrence Haskell, M.F.H., on whose Red Bank estate the tony Monmouth County Steeplechase is held each fall...
...Miss Royce was fired and replaced by Miss Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild...