Word: lads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nice Lad...
...devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...
...detective to watch him while he watched the race, congratulated him on not being hurt, raised his glasses to follow the parade to the post. At the start. Lord Dewar's Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch, the crowd saw three horses- Windsor Lad, Lord Woolavington's Easton and Colombo-pound out in front...
Last week's Derby was followed by the usual stones of sweepstake winners and their doings. In Manhattan a onetime Follies dancer won $150,000 with a ticket on Windsor Lad. A Holland Tunnel policeman who had sold "Duggie" for $6.500 a half interest in his ticket on the winning horse got only $82.000. A 7-year-old Manhattan schoolboy won $75,000 with a ticket on Easton. A Long Island City mailcarrier sold his ticket on Colombo for $51,-ooo, the amount he would have won had he held it. A Manhattan janitor supplied variations in the usual...
...front with one of those magnanimous and forthright gestures that have so endeared him to the hearts of his beloved countrymen. He has refused to take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true to the cause of justice and the aviation companies. If a wicked and paternalistic...