Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promptly at 3 o'clock a bosomy mannequin opened the show with a novelty uniform Madame had designed for Chinese airline stewardesses. As she swaggered down a long black runner on the lawn, guests clapped politely and flicked their cigarets on the grass. Occasionally they cast nervous glances at the overcast, wondered if rain would come to spoil the show...
Last week, after waiting around to see which of several mounts he wanted in the Derby, 30-year-old Jockey Eddie ("Banana Nose") Arcaro, who has ridden the winners of three Derbies, climbed up on Lord Boswell in the 1⅛-mile Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro...
Juleps & Blue Grass. Ever since Aristides took the first Derby (worth $2,850) in 1875, the race has been an exasperating, unpredictable grind. It comes early in the year, before most three-year-old colts (and fillies) have really begun to find their adult racing stride. The distance is a tough mile and a quarter for youngsters used to six-and seven-furlong sprints, with perhaps a couple of mile or iVio races under their hoofs. The Derby has ruined more promising horses than it has made...
After a few shots of precious Kentucky bourbon (Kentuckians rhyme it with turban), strangers would almost believe what Louisvillians tell them-that you can smell the blue grass (which is 30 miles away at Shelbyville...
...driving woman, Elizabeth Arden gets up early every day, even if she's been up late the night before. She okays all her ads, thinks up most of the names for products (Blue Grass, April May, It's You, White Orchid, Winged Victory), and found time to get married to Tom J. Lewis (for 15 years) and to Russian Prince Michael Evlanoff (for 13 months). She is unmarried now. She has her own ideas of perfection, and demands it of her employes, even if a chemist has to spend days remaking a color until Arden herself thinks...