Word: outcaste
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...Woodward estate for $1,251,200), lugging 127 Ibs.; "the Big Horse" was inching up gamely on Alfred Vanderbilt's Find (114 Ibs.). Between them, Brookmeade Stable's Sailor (119 Ibs.) hung on under his own courage. On the outside was Vanderbilt's late-closing Social Outcast...
...took a photo to separate the four; Jockey Eddie Arcaro had booted Nashua home by a head. Second was Social Outcast, third the tired Sailor. As a first dividend for his new owners, Nashua earned $92,600, boosting his earnings to $1,038,015, making him the second millionaire horse in turf history, just $47,745 poorer than Citation...
Sometimes this is rewarding. Hymned, the workers' cause has less stridency than when harangued. And when O'Casey's outcast street figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener picturesque than intense, and windy rather than Aeolian. The finest moments have the comic smack and grizzle of Juno. A trio of codgers snort and wrangle gloriously, and go right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When...
...magnet for those who hate Roosevelt, champion Joe McCarthy, attack unlimited academic freedom and take a dim view of the U.N. On the whole, he finds himself aligned with his authors' opinions, but he rarely hobnobs with right-wing VIPs. He sees himself as the champion of outcast authors, charges other publishers with deliberately ignoring books that express a far-right point of view. "It wouldn't be any service for me to publish the liberal authors." he says. "They have plenty of publishers who are only too happy to have them...
...role might not have appealed to Santayana so much if a New England chill had not entered his Latin blood when he was transplanted as a boy of eight from his home in Avila, Spain to Boston, Mass. Boston seared his youthful psyche with the indelible brand of the outcast, so that in his old age he could call himself, half joshingly, "a dago...