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...Mare Nostrum. When the British Home Fleet's flagship Nelson left Portland for Gibraltar this departure was officially described as "for one day's maneuver." Previously the Renown and the Hood and three smaller ships had slipped away so unobtrusively that those of their 6,000 officers & crew who happened to be ashore were recalled on a few hours' notice spread by flashing the order on cinema screens at Portland and circulating it among the pubs. In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet...
...tight struggle in which the score was tied seven times and in which the goal that finally won, 9-to-8, for the Hurricanes, was scored in the last chukker when Hurlingham was addition ally burdened because its No. 1, "Chicken"' Walford, had in a crisis chosen a mare named Golden Gleam which of all the British ponies was patently the worst...
...Shoreham Hotel. By afternoon, however, AP had had a change of heart, picked up the story from the version printed by the New York Post. At last Washington heard how Sergeant Jurney failed to find a 225-lb. needle in the Washington haystack but stumbled into a mare's nest...
...between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain a fall would be the winner. After one hour, 15 min. and 16 sec. of groveling, grunting, groaning and grimacing, Londos applied the "flying mare" with which he usually ends his bouts. Instead of tottering into a collapse, Danno O'Mahoney retaliated with his own specialty, the "Irish Whip," and a flying mare of his own; banged Londos on the canvas so hard that after the bout doctors found him suffering from two broken...
...husband saw it: at night, in bed, she helped him play with dolls, in the daytime at soldiers. Because she had to do something with her spare time, and because she was ambitious, she read hard, got herself an education. Catherine's only use was as brood mare to the new dynasty, and since her husband would not or could not serve her, the breeders did not much care who did. When she foaled her first-born (afterwards the mad Tsar Paul) it was of little interest to anyone but Catherine that its sire was one Saltykov. The child...