Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King appointed Queen Mary to be Grand Master of the 19-year-old Order of the British Empire, first female grand master in the history of British chivalry...
...innumerable superstitions that surround the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, England, one is that the same horse never wins two years in a row. Fortunately, the horses who run the race are unacquainted with the legends upon which their admirers base predictions of its outcome. Winner of the Grand National of 1935 was Major Noel Furlong's Irish gelding Reynoldstown, ridden by his son Frank, who was delighted because first prize ($32,000) enabled him to marry. Last week Frank Furlong, married to Pamela Kingsmill and fatter than a year ago, was too heavy to ride his father...
...only sound tradition about the Grand National, 4½ miles over the hardest course in the world, is that anything can happen. Just before Davy Jones took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
That left only one thing for Reynoldstown to do: gallop comfortably past the screaming grandstand, 12 lengths in front of Ego. He did so and became the first horse to win the Grand National at Aintree two years in a row since The Colonel...
...addition to being the hardest steeplechase in the world, the Grand National is also occasion for one of the three great annual lotteries of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes Committee. Twelve million dollars' worth of tickets were sold on last week's race, $7,000,000 worth of prizes given away. Of the $7,000,000, U. S. ticket holders got almost $3,000,000. In the past most U. S. holders of winning tickets have turned out to be impoverished eccentrics whose extravagances made good newspaper reading. The list of last week's major winners suggested that...