Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born next door to the county fair grounds in Wyoming, Ill., blue-eyed Lee Townsend hung around horses from the time he could walk. Gypsy horse traders who camped near the track every summer taught him how to judge a horse's legs and wind. When he was older, he walked race horses around the ring while the grooms shook up the stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line...
...They swaggered offensively, shoved Chinese civilians into the gutters and in some cases tripped them into falling, whereupon there was uproarious laughter from the Japanese," grimly cabled New York Timesman Hallett Abend. Leading the parade came Japanese officers riding in motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against Soviet Russia. After the infantry came machine guns, then mountain...
...stunt and decidedly not on the program was the shattering accident that obliterated two planes, killed two racing pilots in the first day's events. Zipping around a pylon in specially designed speedsters at nearly 200 m. p. h. Thompson Trophy-Winner Rudy Kling, Lemont, Ill. garage proprietor, and Detroit Barnstormer Frank Haines sideslipped and somersaulted from about 200 ft, struck the ground with an impact that sickened the 7,000 spectators. Both were apparently caught in the same down-draught, both crashed within a few seconds and 200 yards of each other. As her young husband was sawed...
...disconnected, went on a trip. For hunting duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their ducks sent to a charitable institution. Hunting with his brother Winthrop near Kingsville, Tex., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was taken ill. Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia." As Pennsylvania's deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck...
...concerns what happens to bosses and workers when a steel town goes on strike. If sometimes he uses stock characters and stock works, he more often uses bright, biting satire. The audience laughs out loud when the spoiled son and daughter of a steelmaster try to throw off their ill-natured boredom with a tinny song about spooning and crooning, when a college president and his professors shout mealy-mouthed patriotic jingo. There is good, contemptuous laughter behind The Cradle Witt Rock and that laughter gives the play its vigor...