Word: liverpool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...thought of retirement from his head, had in the meantime become a partner in the Manhattan banking house of Lehman Brothers. Another was Floyd Bostwick Odium, who smelled a bargain for his Atlas Corp. And finally there was Harold A. Fortington, financial secretary of Britain's Royal Liverpool group of insurance companies. An exceedingly rich and somewhat mysterious Briton, Mr. Fortington has been in the U. S. since 1920. He has a home in England, an apartment in Manhattan and a 1,400-acre estate in Pawling, N. Y., where he has the biggest apple orchard and the finest...
...difference in setting between the greatest English steeplechase and its only rival in the U. S. symbolizes other distinctions which make the races, except for their importance to steeplechase enthusiasts, as dissimilar as possible. The Grand National, over dreary flats near Liverpool, is run for a purse of approximately ?5,000. It settles a huge sweepstake and costs most of the 300,000 who watch it a shilling for the privilege. The Maryland Hunt Cup race, started in 1894 when two rival fox hunts decided to see which had the best horses, is for a silver cup which Captain Kettle...
Hardest steeplechase in the world, the Grand National is 4.½ miles, twice around a course laid out over dreary, treeless flats near Liverpool, over 30 jumps, huge hedges & ditches wide as little rivers. Only the 300 yards in front of the grandstand are clearly visible to most spectators. Things most of the crowd missed seeing last week were Castle Irwell's blunder at the Canal Turn; Royal Ransom's jockey being unseated at Valentine's Brook; 21 other mishaps that cut the field, smaller than usual, to six horses at the finish...
...happens to be Statesman Churchill's son Randolph. He went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...
...restore the Cunard age limit to 63. White Star masters still retire at 60, but they are better paid, and have no kick. Some three years from now Commodore Sir Edgar Britten will go to the modest head office of the Cunard Line at Pier's Head, Liverpool. There, with appropriate ceremony, he will hand over the burgee personally to his successor. That, according to indications last week, will be the Olympic's Captain Peel...