Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When wartime brought an influx of Negroes and Southern whites to Los Angeles' Fremont High School, Principal Herbert Wood knew he was in for trouble. He did what he could by instructing his faculty to teach race tolerance. He also braced himself for an explosion. Last week it came...
...weeks she had been through an endless procession of official receptions, tedious reviews, soporific speeches and tiresome dedications. On Tuesday, at Pietermaritzburg, there had been a presentation of local dignitaries, a civic luncheon party, a reception at the stadium to meet the white colony, a reception at the race track to meet the natives, a garden party at the Governor's mansion, an inspection of the guard of honor. At Gingindhlovu next day there had been more receptions, at Eshowe a vast war dance of 5,000 screaming, booming Zulu warriors and their womenfolk, naked to the waist. When...
Like her Uncle David, the Duke of Windsor, Elizabeth loves horses (she rides superbly), racing (if possible, she never misses a race when the royal stable is entered), swing music, nightclubs, and having her own way. But Elizabeth's rebellions are those of any headstrong, well-reared child suffering an overdose of family. "I'd like a car of my own," she told a friend recently, "but there's so damn much family talk about which make I must have that I don't think I'll ever get one." Her greatest insubordination to date...
...December, when wintry winds whistle up the gorge at Harpers Ferry and the temperature nears zero, the bush-league horse-racing circuit shivers to a halt at Charles Town, W. Va. It is the end of the line for gyp (short for gypsy) horsemen and their broken-down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened...
...fashion in hopping was vitamin B-1 injections, administered 24 hours before a race. Some of the crooked gyps believed that an older method-benzedrine-worked too, and did not show up in a saliva test the first time it was given. Everybody wanted to collect purse money ($525 to a winner) before the park fell on its face. Track stewards ruled three gyps off the track for "hopping...