Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uneasy people saw flying saucers in the air. Women, prodded by the dress manufacturers, draped their figures in the New Look which, like all new fashions, was becoming only to the stylish. Race prejudice still showed its ugly head. Senator Bilbo .was stopped at the door of Congress and went back to the South to die, but Willie Earle was lynched in Greenville, S.C., and 31 men who were tried for the crime were freed...
...costs about $2 a day to keep a dog (one-sixth of what it costs to keep a race horse), and at the season's end the dog-man's profit-&-loss statement is usually a lot healthier than the horseman's. In the British Isles, where horse racing most wears the airs of pageantry, the dogs are not merely yipping at the horse's heels but are far out front. There, a whopping $800 million a year is bet at 222 dog tracks, and the dogs are not only a national pastime but a national...
...Ninth Meeting. At Biscayne one night last week, the two speediest dogs in Florida-Beachcomber and Dry Lake-did their noble best. It was the ninth meeting of the two rivals in a month-something like a continuing race between Armed and Assault. Beachcomber whistled out of the No. 2 hole, got to the turn in front and stayed there. His time for the 5/16 mile was 31⅔ if, only a fifth of a second slower than the track record and the best time of the current season. It was Beachcomber's fifth victory over his rival...
...trainer and two assistants take each pooch for a walk. Then the dogs have their toenails pedicured, get combed and rubbed. At 10:30, the dogs are put in kennels and the blinds are pulled down. They nap until 4. A couple of hours before the race, they are taken from their owners and kept under inspection by the Florida Racing Commission. At midnight, after the races, Kirkpatrick's greyhounds get their one meal of the day-a feast of hamburger, vegetables, bran and dog biscuit. Once in a while they get canned peaches...
...fellow whites didn't fare much better. He was charmed by the Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed...