Word: greyhound
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...present from her husband last week: A $1,500 beaver coat. Art Rubloff, ex-shoe-shine boy, now a top Chicago real-estate man, was feeling chipper. Said he: "I've done myself a nice fat deal." The "fat deal" was for a new $4,700,000 Greyhound bus terminal which will streamline the skyline of Chicago's Loop...
...nearly put a stop to golf tournaments in England, has cut down greyhound races to one meet instead of three a week; pigs and potatoes flourish on Wimbledon's famed tennis courts. But, come hell or Hitler, Englishmen still refuse to give up cricket and the Derby...
...Greyhound Corp. (busses...
...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...