Word: royals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, forgets the day in 1930 when The MacNab won the Royal Hunt Cup. There was The MacNab, pounding toward the finish in a howling thunderstorm, when a flash of lightning struck and killed a prominent bookmaker...
Victoria, not keen on racing, always kept up the tradition of royal sponsorship of Ascot meets. She once asked the midget jockey Bell how much he weighed. Staunchly, little Bell replied: "My master says I'm never to tell my weight." (He weighed...
Ransen, Forest Warnyr of 331 Park View, Racine Wis.; Washington Park High, Racine. Hayden, Royal Clifford of 1133 West 3rd Street, Red Wing, Minn.; Albert Lee Senior High, Albert Lee Johnson. William Reynold of 129 Center Street, Excelsior Minn.; Excelsior High. Kinser, Samuel Christianson of 828 West 16th Street, Davenport, Ia.; Davenport High...
...currency he printed. Husky, 26-year-old Elphinstone Forest Gilmour was not a counterfeiter but a student of entomology whose interest in his subject earned him the right to prowl at will among the 13 million beetles in South Kensington's Natural History Museum. Gilmour joined the Royal Entomological Society, wrote for the society's journal a knowing discourse on a black and yellow beetle called Tmesisternus laterimaculatus. He boasted that the beetle was "unique in my own collection...
Danny wows the people and the purple alike. In London and Manchester, crowds have queued up all night for his performances. He has held court for the royal family and Winston Churchill. "His dressing room," wrote the highbrow Sunday Observer, ". . . is now as crowded and as diversified as the anteroom of an 18th Century nobleman in the days of patronage...