Word: larkspur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Edward Riley Bradley, 86, onetime bookmaker and longtime "honest gambler," who became a multimillionaire as proprietor of Palm Beach's Casino, famed & respected owner of some of America's most famous race horses (Blue Larkspur, Bimelech, Bubbling Over), only four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby; in Lexington...
...York Sun's Critic Henry McBride to remark that only Georgia O'Keeffe could "so hush up a bunch of lady art connoisseurs and make them go whispering on tiptoes about a gallery." O'Keeffe's huge flowers include jack-in-the-pulpits, hollyhocks, larkspur, the 3-by-2½-ft. Black Iris, which the Institute's Art Director Daniel Catton Rich described as an example of the Artist's means of "conveying her own distinguished emotions...
...with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles S. Howard's Mioland (pride of the West Coast), Tony Pelleteri's Andy K. (Mr. Big's chief rival last year). They kept their fingers crossed, remembering well that Colonel Bradley's last winter-book favorite (Blue Larkspur in 1929) came in fourth...