Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amtree is longer, its jumps a little higher, but the Maryland Hunt Cup, No. 1 steeplechase in the U.S., has special hazards of its own. Instead of hedges which a horse can brush without falling and which, when the big field has crashed through them on the first circuit of the course, are considerably easier the second time around, the Maryland jumps are timber fences with the top rail securely nailed down. In a blue-green pocket of the hills a few miles outside of Baltimore, eight horses went to the post last week...
...last five years, stumbled at the 17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth's big, chestnut 12-year-old, Hotspur II, was leading when Trouble Maker went down. Captain Kettle, ridden by Charles R. White, trying for his third Maryland Hunt Cup victory in a row, came up fast as the field went over the last two jumps. On the home stretch, down a lane between red fences to hold the crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When...
...condones the NRA, the AAA and other things now going on in this country is a radical in the extreme. The greatest calamity to this country is that President Roosevelt can't walk around and hunt up people to talk to. He can only talk to those his secretaries and assistants allow to come in to see him -and 99% of this crowd is the 'gimme' crowd...
Nazi Göring is Premier of Prussia, German Air Minister, Master of the Hunt, Chief Forester, General of Aviation and dread Chief of the Secret Political Police. It was he who ordered shot during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9) the only man for whom Adolf Hitler had acted as best man since his rise to power, Berlin Storm Troop Leader Karl Ernst. Last week the Realmleader was going to be best man for Göring...
...upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated money to buy the entire collection for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fortnight ago came news of more Rockefeller munificence: a gift of $2,500,000 to build a complete Romanesque abbey for the collection and The Hunt of the Unicorn, a $1,100,000 set of 18th Century tapestries to adorn...