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...mile and a quarter in 2 min., 2/5 sec. (the last quarter in 24 seconds flat). It was 1/5 of a second faster than the Kentucky Derby record set by Twenty Grand just ten years ago. Said Jockey Arcaro, grinning from ear to ear: "He's the runnin'est horse I ever rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wright This Time | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Mebbe while you're at it you better include the sorghum lickers too as associate members. Theys a lot of them round here that got nitiated in that art long as Hank Smith was runnin his sorghum mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Steel Lips went on to say he took up the trumpet at the age of fourteen and worked first as a bugle boy in an army camp down in Louisiana. "The boys came runnin' fast for eats when I let go on that mess call." And now his trumpets ("Lil' Satchel-mouth") don't last up long under Louis' lung power. The intricate instrument of shining brass he plays today he's had only since 1933, and he's already ordered a new one made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Swing Music? I Love It" Declares Hot Trumpeter Armstrong, Now at Met | 3/2/1937 | See Source »

...throwed the keys and I looked at him and I said. 'Coonhunter, guess I'll have to kill you. Life's uncertain but death's sure. I've come out here to do something I never done before in my life.' He started runnin' around a-lookin' some more and then he ran away from me and I shot him a couple times in the back. He fell over and he kinda looked up at me and I thought, 'I might not a got him but if I shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Widow | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...included in a leather bound covering: OLD BILL IS DEAD Old Bill has died and gone away, Over the "Great Divide." Gone to a place where the preachers say Both saint and sinner will abide. If they "check his brand" like I think they will It's a runnin' hoss they'll give to Bill And some good wild steers till he gets his fill. With a great big crowd for him to thrill. Bill's hide was black but his heart was white, He'd sit up through the coldest night To help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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