Word: greyhound
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...There are 160 British dog tracks (17 in London), and going to greyhound races is almost as popular a British pastime as throwing darts or playing shove-ha'penny in a pub. Since the war there have been three or four dog races a week. Henceforth there will be but one, on Saturdays. In 1939 there were 12,000 dogs on the tracks, now there are 6,000. Most of the retired dogs were not destroyed, but made into pets or put out to stud. Bidding is still keen for good dogs at sales, where a promising pup will...
...large army of some 700 living Rumanian former cabinet ministers, and of innumerable diplomats and generals." Wearing white linen spats and monocles, they sat at their table in the lobby from noon until midnight, studying "women's points." One Old Excellency had "the face of a sick greyhound." The other, "grey-haired and heavy-eyed," had a pointed beard like that of the late Rumanian premier, Ion Bratianu. They were wicked and pornographic old men, who always thought the worst about everybody, "with the distinction that they never thought the worst of the worst...
...Countess wondered what indiscreet Bucharestians were like. But just then the Old Excellencies bowed to an "extraordinary dark beauty" who was slipping off her sables. "That," whispered the Greyhound, "is the friend of the German and the Hungarian and the Italian ministers. They all pay her for telling them what Udareanu [Carol's court chamberlain] does. And Udareanu pays her to tell him what the ministers are up to. The perfect arrangement...
...agent for Greyhound, Rubloff bought the famous old Ashland Block, a 16-story terra cotta skyscraper that sunburned the tonsils of visitors to the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. He also bought seven adjoining properties, making 70,000 square feet in all. Total cost: $1,700,000. Best guess on Rubloff's commission...
When & if Greyhound can get steel and other construction materials (probably not very soon), it will tear the old buildings down. In their place will rise a long, low (four stories) $3,000,000 building which will be the world's largest and swankest bus station. Busses will enter the basement by ramps, unload passengers to escalators running to a first floor complete with waiting rooms, shops, restaurant, newsreel theater, parking garage...