Word: petticoats
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Oldsters who can remember the Chester A. Arthur era of U. S. horse racing will never forget Monmouth Park. There, on the petticoat of Jersey's fashionable Long Branch, the Jersey Derby set a vogue for U.S. derbies. There, in 1872, in one of the greatest match races of all time, Longfellow, son of British-bred Leamington, licked Harry Bassett, son of Kentucky-bred Lexington. There, in 1890, James Ben Ali Haggin's immortal Salvator ran a mile in 1:35½-a record that stood for over a quarter of a century...
...stage the October Revolution, conducted the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations with Germany. Because it seemed a major point of proletarian protocol, he wired Lenin to ask whether he should wear a tailcoat to the peace celebration. Lenin answered: "If it will help to bring peace, go in a petticoat...
...Petticoat," stretched the old lady...
...most provocative patriotism in the world wear your stars and stripes "undercover"! Let a star-struck slip skitter out from under your navy blue suit. Wear a boldly striped petticoat with a witty bombardment of stars on its bodice. The whole idea's as fresh and vivid as the red carnation in your best bean's buttonhole. It's as deliciously daring as the gusty winds of March will let you be. Macy...
...making a total revolution in the Art of War' ") and deflated ("the proprietors of private madhouses had their hands so full that they were obliged to shut their doors . . ."). In 1727 the old King died and the coronation of George Augustus and pomp-loving Caroline (who had a "petticoat so heavily jewel-encrusted that it was found necessary to contrive a sort of pulley that en abled her to raise the hem when she knelt down") ushered in the Augustan...