Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire's Workman, last year's tired third. Workman stood at 100-8, just a shade better liked than Royal Mail, 100-7, the only former winner in the field. A tempting long shot was Capt. L. E. Scott Briggs's MacMoffat, at 25-1. Another was Sir Humphrey de Trafford's Under...
...start was a beauty, but so tightly packed was the field at the first jump that three horses went down for keeps. At the fifth jump Royal Mail faltered, and Under Bid flashed out in front. Into Becher's Brook (socalled because 100 years ago a Captain Becher came a cropper and dived under its surface in fear of the flying hoofs above him) the great Royal Danieli fell, dunking most of England's shilling bets...
President Roosevelt's Post Office Department ordered all mail to Czechoslovakia held temporarily at Manhattan and Paris, until its senders could recall letters and funds they would hate to have fall into Nazi hands...
...trial in U. S. District Court in Danville, Ill. last week were Maude Ault, now a plump matron of 48, and 29-year-old Robert Eugene, who had himself renamed Alt, charged with mail fraud. Indicted with them was James Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment when the estate was secured of $200 for $1. The letters claimed that Thomas Edmund Dewey, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's great Chase National Bank were all interested in the case. Though indicted, James Cleary was not tried, for the good reason...
Unfortunately the girls were not aware of Harvard's traditional indifference to mail box numbers when they addressed the epistles to mail box numbers corresponding to their own, and the letters were referred to Colonel Apted for investigation...