Word: greyhound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there in 1805 that Andrew Jackson sponsored one of the greatest match races of all time: his Truxton v. Lazarus Cotton's Greyhound, with cane-shaking partisans wagering their tobacco crops, stables and plantations on the outcome. It was there in 1843 that Nashville's gentry staged the $35,000 Peyton Produce Stakes, up to that time the world's richest horse race and the forerunner of America's "Futurities" (race in which competitors, now usually two-year-olds, are nominated at birth or before...
...destroyer Greyhound (1,335 tons, 4-7-in. guns) flicked on a searchlight. By great good luck the glare squarely silhouetted the third ship in the Italian line, the cruiser Fiume (10,000 tons, 8-inchers).- At this exceedingly close range, Warspite, whose heavy batteries had been brought to readiness, spoke up with a broadside of 15-inchers. The whole broadside found its mark. The Fiume burst into flames from foremast funnel to sternpost. The after turret flopped right into the sea. Warspite let her have another broadside. Fiume was now afire and hopelessly crippled...
...Wagner got a new idea for barnstorming tours. He decided to take opera to smaller U. S. cities by the busload. Picking Rossini's oldtime Barber of Seville as the most portable opera (two scenic sets, chorus optional) that he could think of, he chartered a big, shiny Greyhound-type bus, remodeled its roof to accommodate a ten-foot pile of scenery, and started signing up a busworthy crew of singers from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. He called his new venture "Opera a la Cart...
...Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, holder of the Royal Aero Club's No. 1 flying certificate, twice Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, who is known around his greyhound racing tracks (in 1937 they paid 40% dividends) as "Brab...
This September, Manhattan sport fans may see Greyhound and other top-notch trotters on their fabulous neighboring island...