Word: mares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old mare named Royal Wally, a habitual also-ran, was entered in New Jersey's Essex Fox Hounds race meet last week. The Race Committee expected Member C. Suydam Cutting's weekend guests, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, to attend the races. So rather than scratch Royal Wally, Owner Thomas Tully changed her name to Glenside. Fulfilling expectations, she finished last, but, alas, her former namesake didn't come...
...second $500 he arranged to have a trader's hired hand take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having an unmarried expectant mother under her roof, the trader gave Tom $15, a mare and a mule, to take Nancy away and marry her. After a brawl over the fee, the marriage was performed on June 12, 1806. Judge Alley is not positive of Abe's birthplace or the date. He strongly suspects the child saw the marriage ceremony...
...Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island (Calif.) naval-base workers. Builders got started on Wurster's houses last month...
...horses, a few riding horses. But most were plugs worth less than $25; some were bought by tallow-rendering companies, some as food for mink farms. Horse traders expect to be gypped but always hope to gyp the other fellow a little more. Said one dealer of a runty mare he had just bought: "I've owned her a hundred times in the last couple of years and she can't pull a kiddie...
...farm in north central Indiana's Carroll County. There his maternal great-grandfather was the first white settler, on a grant signed by Vice President Martin Van Buren in 1835. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Jackson Wickard, his worldly goods slung across his back, rode his one-eyed bay mare, "Chubby," into the county's Section...