Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshall Field, Arthur B. Hancock, Robert A. Fairbairn. *Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever won this 133-year-old race: the late Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall in 1882. ?At that time the thoroughbred was just beginning to be established as a breed in England. *All thoroughbreds have the same birthday, January 1. So that foals may be dropped as soon after January 1 as possible (a mare carries her foal eleven months), the thoroughbred mating season is around the first of February...
Marriage Revealed. William Robert Bradley, 21, orange-haired Sixth Earl of Craven; and Irene Meyrick, daughter of the late in-and-out-of-jail Mrs. Kate ("Queen of the London Night Clubs") Meyrick. The Earl's gallant, one-legged father caused a newspaper uproar in 1926 by eloping with another earl's wife, Countess ("Moral Turpitude") Cathcart...
...Married. Robert Vanderpoel Clark, 21, Manhattan's No. 1 male debutant of 1938, Singer Sewing Machine Co. heir; and Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health...
Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously...
When at last the correspondents coaxed skeptical Chinese to take them to the front in a quiet sector, "we found ourselves discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges. The Testament of Beauty can seldom have been quoted in less appropriate surroundings." In China's wildwest Sian, they met a Swiss doctor who had attended D. H. Lawrence. Back in Hankow, a Chinese lady gave them a lacquer box containing an ivory skull for Virginia Woolf...