Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of reporters visited the Ed Perry Ranch at Menlo Park, Calif, one morning last week to have a look at Phar Lap, the huge red gelding from Australia that won the Agua Caliente Handicap (TIME, March 28). When stable attendants refused them access to the great horse's stall, the visitors grew suspicious. Perhaps Phar Lap was sick. They waited around...
...afternoon the truth came out. With tears in their eyes the stablemen announced that Phar Lap was dead...
Like his name, which in Javanese means "Wink of the Sky" (Lightning), Phar Lap's death was sudden, frightful, mysterious. His trainer, Tommy Woodcock, who always slept within a few feet of Phar Lap's stall, had gone into the stall early in the morning and found Phar Lap lying down. He had called Phar Lap's veterinary, Dr. Walter Nielsen. They diagnosed colic. As the big, long-legged carcass stiffened, Dr. Nielsen took out its stomach and entrails. These told him that Phar Lap had been ill two days...
Although he had been closely guarded ever since someone tried to shoot him near Melbourne two years ago, there were rumors last week that Phar Lap had been poisoned, murdered. The police of Menlo Park ordered his oats examined. For three days, Government chemists analyzed samples of grass and leaves which Phar Lap might have nibbled. Then W. W. Vincent, chief of the Western District of the Food & Drug Administration, announced that tests on grass from a plot whence Trainer null had pulled green fodder for his charge showed .01 grains of arsenic per pound. The poison could have been...
...facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas in cases where conditions warrant it." In Mrs. Coleman's lap was an open Bible and directions that their ashes be scattered under the trees at their summer home in Karuizana, near Tokyo...