Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was news aplenty for the sports fans. In San Francisco an enterprising rat fancier was busily training some 80 albino rats, their tails dyed distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat...
...blow lasted 2½ days. While fancier racing craft had to shorten sail to ride it out, the rugged 71-ft. schooner Dolphin II, owned and captained by Actor Frank Morgan, was doting on the gale. She sped westward under full canvas...
Hedda's Weapons. With all these handicaps-and after all, Beethoven was deaf-Hedda has some wicked weapons, and knows how to use them. She can print what she does about Hollywood people because she knows still fancier stuff that the mails would not carry, and because her own private life is blackmail-proof. And she knows how to turn her most outrageous mistakes into a joke. To one "planter's" hurt question why she had reduced his exclusive scoop to one line, low in her column (it was one of her mistakes), she crowed: "Bitchery, baby, pure...
...horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great. Millionaire William Hayes Ackland, an amateur art fancier, was one of many pleased by such departures from tradition, especially since Rollins also showed a lively interest...
...apparent self-defense, and is even urged to keep dates with his boss's pet secretary (Ella Raines). With William Bendix of the New York Homicide Squad sniffing around, Lawyer O'Brien is in a very embarrassing fix. There is still another murder, set in a still fancier frame, before matters are cleared...