Word: relict
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...three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players plumped for Textile Millionaire Marcel Boussac's triple entry of Djeddah, Coronation and Norval (Boussac horses had won the Prix five times...
...Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff...
World War II introduced a croaking note of tragedy; two ravens were killed by German bombs; one died of old age. His relict, Pauline, forced her enthusiastic attentions on Gripp, the surviving male. Gripp and his wife, Mabel, an intensely monogamous couple, were so outraged that they beat up Pauline. She died of her wounds...
Married. Tommy Burns (real name: Noah Brusso), 65, onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion (1906-08); and Nellie Susan Vanderlip, 65, wealthy West Coast relict of oil magnate Charles Vanderlip; both for the second time; in Oakland, Calif...
Grace Coolidge, relict of the 29th President, kept a dinner engagement at the home of a Northampton, Mass, cobbler. As she presented pins to a class of nurses' aides, she had encountered a girl with an Italian name, promptly inquired whether the girl could cook spaghetti, soon got an invitation from the girl's parents. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the Sam Borrelli home in good time, departed 4½ hours later. "She ate slowly," reported Cobbler Borrelli...