Word: jock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something on the wall for every type of art lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there was the vividly painted False Start lent by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. For print collectors there was the fine etching of Degas friend and pupil, Mary Cassatt in the Louvre. For balletomanes there were half a dozen pastel studies of the saucy, bandy-legged little dancing girls on which Degas fame chiefly rests...
...borrowing five new mounts last week, Greentree at least tried to repair the first defect. The second was irreparable. In arranging the series the U. S. Polo Association had agreed to let the winners of the U. S. Open Championship represent the country. By substituting Winston Guest for Jock Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2, the team-with Pete Bostwick and Tommy Hitchcock at Nos. 1 and 3-could have been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts...
...Jock Wallace (Warner Baxter) married Mary with a high heart and the assistance, as best man, of his friend Bill Hallam (Ian Hunter) who had also loved her with dogged devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life...
...there is one rule for the Independent Labor Party and another for the Labor Party in this House," shouted Jock in his thickest Scottish burr, "then I say the Home Secretary is a liar...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Freeport Texas reported semi-annual income of $1,014,000 as against $550,000 in the initial half of last year...