Word: romp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward Bradley's Bimelech would make their pets look like plugs, all but seven of the country's top-notch turfmen withdrew their entries for the Kentucky Derby the week before the race. Last week, when 95,000 fans crammed into Churchill Downs to watch Big Bim romp off with America's No. 1 horse race, many a rival owner had already phrased his felicitations to Colonel Bradley, too ill to watch his latest (and probably last) hopeful...
...strategic material to worry about if U. S. industry could manufacture a cheap and reliable substitute for rubber. For 97% of the U. S.'s crude rubber (1939 imports 497,212 long tons) comes over 10,000 miles of sea from the Middle East, where commerce raiders might romp in wartime...
...besieged Governor Culbert Olson wanted to name & head a Term III ticket in the May 7 primary. So did Warhorse William Gibbs McAdoo, now a shipping magnate. A split progressive vote would put sand in the bandwagon's axles, might let John Garner's delegates romp home ahead. A Donald Duck for publicity purposes only, Secretary Ickes now quacked hard sense to a dozen assorted California Democrats in 36 crowded hours, got them to agree on a consolidated headless ticket, thus sending 48 harmony delegates to Chicago July 15. Then Mr. Ickes solemnly assured reporters...
...west in general have cleared up any doubts he might have had as to who his enemies are in this war. There was no better person to whom to state his position than his old friend Poultney Bigelow of Malden-on-Hudson, N. Y., who used to romp with him in a German school when Poultney's father was U. S. Minister to France. No war could break their friendship, which has extended to their families (see cut), and every year Oldster Bigelow goes to visit Oldster Hohenzollern at Doom. Last week, after having trouble getting a passport...