Word: railbird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice Admiral Adolphus Andrews, Commandant of the entire Eastern Sea Frontier, came graciously to the microphone to make a neat little speech, in which he promised that the U.S. Fleet in the Pacific would win as Shut Out had just done. The thousands gave him a rolling cheer; a railbird shouted 'Atta boy, Admiral...
This Saturday, when a dozen three-year-olds parade to the post for the 68th running of the Kentucky Derby, the favorite will probably be one of these colts. But many a wise old railbird, well aware that the post-time favorite has won the Derby only 33 times out of 67, will hitch his money to a dark horse-maybe With Regards, the rheumatic $800 nag that won the Arkansas Derby last month; or Hollywood, a big Irish-bred colt imported by Texas Cattleman Emerson Woodward last fall and quoted at odds of 100-to-1 in the Derby...