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Could dishonor a flamingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impregnable of Eye | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...annoyed by the weight of his jockey, Largo, one of the horses entered in the Grand Prix, last week, cantered wildly. The crowd of gentlemen in tall grey hats and ladies in wide flat hats stared and murmured. They were afraid Largo's antics would unnerve the favorite Flamingo. With Largo off the course, the other horses started, rounded the curve of the turf in the sunshine with Croix de Guerre, owned by Ogden Mills (father of the U. S. Under Secretary of the Treasury) carrying Jockey Esling and the numeral 13, beating Baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ascot, Grand Prix | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...stands in the track watching them struggle up wearily and slowly. When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front with Ranjit Singh close to him; then came Port Hole and Royal Minstrel and Felstead and Sunny Trace ridden by Gordon Richards, England's premier jockey. They left the level and ran wildly downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Epsom Downs | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Many birds settle down to a drab existence in captivity although in excellent health. The flamingo gradually loses its brilliant red color, turns an ugly grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Congo's End | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Flamingo Hotel was not wrecked and the death list for all of Dade County is placed at 109 and as a result of the storm the property loss will exceed $100,000,000, yet there is no interruption of business in Miami, and we are very sure that TIME would not consciously add to our difficulties by the publication of exaggerated or untruthful stories emanating from sources that are not reliable. . . . L. W. CROW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1926 | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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