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...Derby as the crowd cheered. He led Hyperion around the ring, then went to receive the congratulations of the King. Jockey Tommy Weston, bubbling with joy. cried jubilantly: "He's a jolly good horse and ran a jolly good race for a jolly good owner. I am the proudest jockey in the world...
...vest pocket and laid on his paper-cluttered desk when Texas' Senator Morris Sheppard rose in the Senate chamber one day last week. A small, prim man with greying hair and narrow eyes, his greatest claim to fame is being co-author of the 18th Amendment. The happiest, proudest day of his 57 years (30 of them in Congress) "came Aug. 1, 1917 when the Senate wrote national Prohibition into the Constitution. Every Jan. 16 since, all Senate business has had to halt while the "Father of the 18th Amendment" delivered an oration to commemorate the Amendment...
...estates he charges $100, but he prefers larger jobs. Rats, says he, always return in six months unless an exterminator is used continuously. He estimates that if only one healthy rat couple were left alive in Chicago it would produce 359,000,000 descendants in three years. He is proudest of a kill he made in one night near Baton Rouge, La. The State called him in, asked him what he would need. Said Ratkiller Nicholes: "I'll need one ground-up cow, 16 barrels of sweet potatoes, 16 full cheeses and 50 niggers." The 50 Negroes distributed...
...This is the proudest moment of my life!" cried Dr. Simon Strousse Baker when, in 1921, he returned to Washington. Pa., in the county where he was born, to become president of Washington & Jefferson, the college from which he had been graduated...
Every U. S. schoolboy knows Rebecca, the beauteous, unhappy Jewess in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Many a little U. S. girl has felt sorry that Rebecca, whose figure "might indeed have compared with the proudest beauties of England," did not in the end marry Wilfred of Ivanhoe who saved her from being burnt as a sorceress. Thrilled by Rebecca's stout defiance of Brian de Bois-Guilbert ("I will not trust thee, Templar!") and his mollification by her fortitude (in threatening to jump off a parapet), most children are unaware, as indeed are many grownups, that...