Word: rarin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citation, the wonder horse, was rarin' to go, but his rider wasn't. Both were getting daily diathermy treatments; the horse for an old hip injury and Jockey Eddie Arcaro for a recent and painful dislocated shoulder. Muttered Eddie: "I can't hit a horse or anything." But rather than let another jockey ride Citation in last week's $25,000 Sysonby Mile at Belmont, Arcaro got a shot of novocaine in his lame shoulder and climbed aboard. If worst came to worst, he decided he could whip with his left hand...
Conservative Bosses. Is it by accident or design that many of the men bossing the home front now are Southerners, of semi-conservative stripe, while no rarin', tearin' New Dealer has a top job? Where are all the Brain-Trusters now? These were the questions that made many a heretofore 100% Roosevelt-man wince last week. Because, after those rhetorical questions had been asked, there was only one more to ask: Is Franklin Roosevelt still...
Which Front? Back in Britain after a visit to Ottawa and the White House, Canada's Lieut. General Andrew George Latta McNaughton was preaching invasion through France and expanding his Canadian Corps into a full army. In Northern Ireland were several thousand U.S. troops, rarin' to go and practicing invasion tactics. More were coming: an Army colonel announced that Boston was to be an embarkation point for many troops and supplies (see p. 16). One subject of discussion was drastically intensified bombing of western Germany by both British and U.S. flyers...
News of the Freshman Jubilee has penetrated to quarantined Northampton, and Smith girls have notified Harvard that with the excess energy stored up by being cooped in for months, they will not only be able to accept invitations, but "sure will be rarin...
...Fall round-up is hyar agin. The herd's a-gatherin' 'round the old corral jest like she allus has. Seems it's purty near the same thing every year-lot o' the old 'uns ain't 'round no more, but a flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes all over...