Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme fatal from France, 40-year-old Troubadour Jean Sablon...
Said Assault's Jockey Warren Mehrten "Usually all I gotta do is clutch him and he goes. Today I clutched him and he didn...
France's towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Yvon Petra stomped onto Wimbledon's famed center court wearing a white jockey cap and a belligerent look. His wife had just found him a steak. Said she: "With a beefsteak inside him, he can always win." She was right...
Mexico City's 400-year-old Casa de Azulejos (House of Blue Tiles) has been a private palace, the Jockey Club, the Russian Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, a dormitory for homeless newsboys, and, since 1919, the home of Sanborn's, most famous American business in Mexico. Last week the store in the old palace became the 416th link in the Walgreen drug chain. In its first venture outside the U.S., Walgreen's paid $2,500,000 to Ohio-born Frank Sanborn, 76, for the drugstore he founded 43 years ago with...
...jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist who has ridden as a jockey in the Grand National Steeplechase...