Word: perches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide. Swart little Jockey Dominick Bellizzi tugged desperately at his 2-year-old's left rein. The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth. Jockey Bellizzi went flying from his perch, hurtled into the dust. Hoofs struck and crushed his crumpled body and when the field thundered off Jockey Bellizzi lay in his dirty royal-blue-&-white silks, unconscious...
...squat on the steps of the Speaker's dais. Rotund Tory Winston Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
...PEGASUS' PERCH: Next to the Ibis Nest. Just one of those places three flights up where you can still see the Village Crowd. Clientele rather stiff and formal...
That it was on both counts for five days last week. Fully 2,000 people at a time crowded the gallery. So many socialites jammed the front rows that one eager bidder at the rear of the hall had to perch on the back of a chair with a pair of binoculars and signal his bids as he got the range. On sale were the furniture, jewelry, silverware and clothing of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, eccentric daughter of pious John Davison Rockefeller...
...Davenport stared, smiled and applauded. Likewise did four dozen other specially invited guests at the performances of a 19-month old boy known as Johnny. They watched the youngster critically as he climbed up a steep plank to get a banana, as he dropped down from a 5-ft. perch (see cut, p. 18), as he got around on roller skates, as he picked out familiar objects from a pile of hells, pencils, spoons and other miscellany-all the while gibbling &; gabbling with his august audience. Johnny has appeared in motion pictures displayed to psychologists in Chicago last autumn (TIME...