Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Tokyo next day came an announcement : Wake was taken; it had been defended by 3,000 officers and men. To Jimmie Devereux-whom his civilian friends knew as an affable gentleman jockey, whom Marines knew as a studious, hard-fighting professional-and to the 378 Marines, alive and dead, of his command, the Jap had paid a fitting tribute...
Died. Silvio Coucci, 27, jockey hailed as "The second Earl Sande" in 1932; of a leap or fall from a hotel window; in Fayetteville, N.C. A rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney's stables, he rode 216 winners in 1934, was the second-ranking U.S. jockey...
Shadow tries hard to make exciting capital out of Private Detective Nick Charles's solution of the deaths of a jockey, a blackmailing reporter and a racetrack tout, occasionally succeeds, more often falls flat on its formula. Actors Powell & Loy do not try as hard as the rest, appear to be just going through the paces. Result: a typed who-done...
William Saroyan can raise the same kind of stirring laugh that Chekhov could. Sample: Jim Dandy's henchman reads him a sales letter from one ex-Jockey Earl Catfoot ("Why should you go without? Go with. . . . Don't be a sucker-be a winner."). The pessimist comments: "It wouldn't help." Says Jim Dandy, controlling his temper: "You may be mistaken. Weighing one hundred pounds, the man has ridden horses...
...lzer, Hereditary Salters of Werl & Neuwerk, an honor which in medieval days assured them a fine hereditary income. This they augmented in cruder capitalist times by discreet ties with those Rhenish Schlotbaronen (smokestack barons) who were later to line the pockets of Adolf Hitler. An expert horseman and gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic "calm and open stare...