Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old, Equipoise, sired by Pennant out of Swinging, was a scrawny, excitable horse, brilliant but undependable. He threw his jockey, Sonny Workman, who rode him last week, in his first start. He fell in the Pimlico Futurity. The next season, after being a winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, he ran badly in the Preakness, developed a blind quarter crack (hidden bruise) that made it look as though he might never run again. Last year, heavier (1,080 lb.), more composed, he lived up to his promise by winning ten of his 14 starts, setting a world...
...advanced work. Aeronautics as a science did not then exist in the U.S., but a beginning had been made abroad. A request from M.I.T. to the Navy Department, and Jerome Hunsaker was on his way to England and France where he studied wind tunnels, to Germany where he rode on a Zeppelin, asked embarrassing questions, remembered what he saw. Back in the U.S. he established M.I.T.'s first aeronautical engineering course, took charge of airplane construction & design for the Navy. During and after the war the Navy and M.I.T. continued to shuttle him back & forth; the Navy made...
When they rode out on Onwentsia's close-cropped field, Raymond Guest was still in the East's lineup, but in Michael Phipps's stead was a burly, baldish fellow with a fringe of red hair and a bright red helmet. This Was another scion of one of the East's great socialite polo families, Earle A. S. ("Young Earle") Hopping, 199 lb., a cool, rough-riding player who helped beat Argentina in 1928. He went in at No. 2 while Hitchcock moved to No. 3, Winston Guest...
...swung his mallet heedlessly in races for the ball. Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner's alert abandon, helped account for all three of the East's first chukker goals. Then red-helmeted Hopping slammed his pony unchecked into rangy Boeseke, rolled him to the ground and his pony over him. With a twisted right ankle, Boeseke played...
...covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed magnificently. High above the city they signed a marriage contract, landed in the suburbs, rode back to town that night. Mrs. Boynton died only last April...