Word: paddocked
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...walking along by a hedge in the paddock about 150 yards away from me. He did not seem to be making any effort to take off his equipment and disguise himself as a British soldier so I thought he could not be a parachutist...
...result of the cleanup was to drive gamblers to nearby De Soto County, Miss. Tall, smooth Bob Berryman trekked to De Soto, opened the Paddock (dining, dancing, gambling). A rival house was the Shanty. Memphis newspapers reported the Paddock gambling; the De Soto sheriff said he had never heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming...
...horse-racing fan, from the paddock-club swell to the tinhorn sport, which track he would choose if he could visit only one before he dies, and nine out of ten answers are: Saratoga...
...that take place during the middle fortnight of the Saratoga season begin. Probably no event in the country, except opening night at the Metropolitan Opera or the National Horse Show, attracts a more plush crowd than that which assembles nightly in the wooden pavilion known as the Saratoga Sales Paddock. There the patrons of horse racing, hoping to spot another Man o' War, watch the young thoroughbreds parade around the arena, bid for those they fancy...
Died. The Right Reverend Robert Lewis Paddock, 69, retired Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Eastern Oregon; after long illness; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Spirited anti-Fascist and American Civil Liberties Union crusader, unorthodox, unconventional Bishop Paddock was continually at odds with the House of Bishops...