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...using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder and gave Gallant Fox a cut, and although Gallant Fox was wide on the turn, the others, saving ground inside, did not gain. They still had to run the length of the stretch, when a ruddy gentleman sitting in a glass pagoda near the finish line brought his binoculars away from his eyes. With a throaty exclamation, he said, "Fine, I'm glad...
Having thus complimented William Woodward, owner of Gallant Fox, who sat beside him in the pagoda, Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, took little further interest in the actual running. Although his conduct might have seemed odd in view of the fact that, urged by his friend Joseph E. Widener, he had come from England on the Aquitania expressly to be present during these 2 minutes and 7 seconds, a large fraction of which had still to elapse, he was quite in his senses. Himself a horseman, smart in the hunting field when he was younger, a breeder...
...Publisher Black's peregrinations. Six of the Sun's eight front-page column-tops were devoted to Indian riot and Burmese earth-quake.* No special foreign correspondents contributed these news stories; but spread across four of the column-tops was a stock photograph of a Burmese pagoda "visited by Van Lear Black on his flight to Batavia, Java...
Here are some more bits culled form the same issue of the same newspaper which sponsored those in the first paragraph: Shali's gilded motor car shipped to Persia today. . . Finds honey in rafters. . . Queen Mary's collection of embroidery exhibited. . . Thinks he saw Great Pagoda from flagpole. . . Parrot embargo makes bedlam of quiet town. . Volunteer killed as tree falls. . . Horse takes motor parts; owner put on probation. . Yonkers bans all-night parking. . Flea bites please dogs for a time, says expert
...Moulmein Pagoda. A steady drone of power changed suddenly to a stutter of uncertainty, then stopped. Joseph Marie Le Brix and M. Rossi on a flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes...