Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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York World's Fair their own Empire's exhibits will consume most of the visitors' time, to the exclusion of fun on the Midway. They must leave in time to motor to Hyde Park for dinner at Mother Roosevelt's. After a quiet weekend there, they will entrain for Canada to embark for home on the battle cruiser Repulse...
...resist aggressors by all peaceful means. But in a war-shy, depression-hit world, Britain's statesmen would not back him up. He could do little more in public than denounce treaty-smashers as pungently as diplomatic usage permitted. Before leaving office he visited Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park, indelibly impressed him. In the past six years, Colonel Stimson and Cordell Hull have become great cronies behind the scenes...
...Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor who became proficient at catering, is the White Housekeeper: orders meals for the President (he loves game, sea food), the boys (steaks, chops), exotic visitors (an Abyssinian Coptic who ate no flesh was a problem), hires & fires servants (for economy the Roosevelts cut the Hoovers' 32 down to 23). Already she has drafted tentative menus for Their Majesties: for lunch, sweetbreads; for dinner, capon...
Irishmen hailed the bounding green silks of Tim Hyde with a mighty roar. Merseysiders went wild. An Irish priest shouted encouragement in Gaelic. For Workman was Irish-bred by a Cork pubkeeper, Irish-trained in Kildare by Tim Hyde himself, Irish-owned by Sir Alex, a sometime Meath man from Navan who had put a bet on his jumper for the benefit of Navan's 10,000 citizens. Close behind Workman came 'Captain Briggs's MacMoffat, with Jockey Alder in primrose silks. As they pressed on, Kilstar blundered four jumps from home, and from then...
...Irish and the Merseysiders exulted, and they were right. The Paddy horse breezed in three lengths ahead of MacMoffat without the whip, with Kilstar a trailing third among the eleven finishers. It was the first all-Irish winner since Troytown's year, 1920. Tim Hyde grinned a wide, toothless grin. Said he to Workman: "Twas a marvelous race...