Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Foot was in front . That much was clear as the horses, digging inside toward the rail , formed an irregular phalanx. A few yards further on Alcibiades, the only filly in the race, passed High Foot and held the lead past the grandstand to the clubhouse turn. As they swung around the turn into the back stretch with a mile still to go, a big bay colt swung to the outside, gaining ground. It was Sande on Gallant Fox?an amazing, disdainful thing to do, for when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does...
Minister Washburn considered it his duty and made it his hobby to obtain a profound grasp of all the secret machinations and counter-machinations of the Socialist and Reactionary irregular armies in Austria: the Schutzbund and the Heimwher. During Vienna's "Red Revolution" in 1927, when the capital was cut off by railway and telegraph strikes from the world, and when Italy was itching to use the excuse of "revolution" to intervene, Mr. Washburn saw that such a coup could best be prevented by smuggling out of the facts, the news. He and another U. S. Minister...
...Washburn's well-pondered opinion that: "The irregular armies of Austria can mobilize more rapidly, with a superior armament and a greater striking power than is possessed by the lawful forces of the Republic...
...great gravities of the planets affect each other as they circle around the Sun and make their orbits slightly irregular. It was man's mathematical ability to measure such orbital variations that permitted Astronomer Lowell to declare that an unknown planet was butting Neptune's orbit out of its regularly irregular shape and to predict just where in the heavens a sufficiently powerful telescope, which did not exist during his life, would reveal...
...sinister ubiquitous, omniscient Father Rothschild, the Honorable Walter Outrage, "last week's Prime Minister," Agatha Runcible, loudest if not brightest of the Bright Young People, Lottie Crump, proprietress of the crazy London hotel (it really exists) where everyone drinks champagne from dawn to dusk, where bills are infrequent, irregular, but inescapable...