Word: pete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silks they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney was astonished and so were the bookies, who promptly set her down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius and Halcyon favorites. The start of the race decided its finish. Away at the barrier shot a bay gelding named...
Married. George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, 24, No. 1 U. S. gentleman jockey; and Laura Elizabeth Curtis, Manhattan socialite; in Roslyn...
...time, and was standing back of me. Well, the elephant came and came and came, followed by the herd. Klein yelled at him, hoping to turn him, but still he came. I had one shell left in my double-barreled gun, and shot at his head. Klein and Pete shot at the same time. I was off my balance. . . . My foot caught as I stepped back from the kick of the gun, and down I fell on my back in the thorn bushes. Now, two things happened as I fell: First, I saw the bull go down, and secondly...
...letter also elaborated Father Davison's cable of last month: ''Got small bull elephant" (TIME, Aug. 14). He slew the first bull, Mrs. Davison the next, a larger one; Pete Quesada, their airplane pilot, the first...
...cruelly, to "go on in." Stumbling, Jeby tried to obey. Brouillard, still fresh after six rounds of arduous butchery, smashed his ribs and then his face with jolting lefts. Jeby stepped backwards, staggered, slipped slowly down to one knee, then fell flat on the canvas, face down. When Referee Pete Hartley's count reached eight, he dragged himself to one knee, then pitched forward while the count went...