Word: scrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This sage hint for the Grand National was given by an old trainer to Count Charles Kinsky, who won the race with his own mare, Zoedone, in 1883. Another scrap of the lore which has grown up since 1839 around the hardest steeplechase in the world-four and one-half miles over 30 jumps at Aintree, England-is not to ride a favorite. Most Grand National winners have been outsiders. At Aintree this week the favorites-Miss Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller and Mrs. M. A. Gemmell's Gregalach, the winner...
...Lima ten hours of explanation to Peru's Congress were necessary before the Government won a vote of confidence in its "scrap of paper" policy towards the treaty of 1922. In Bogota, the Government decreed military conscription (with exemption purchasable for 900 pesos...
...board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around a flower garden, smacks over a dish of boned shad, keeps a voluminous scrap book. Afloat he is a strict but just disciplinarian. He talks in a low, melodious drawl, never raising his voice to match his temper. Slim of stature, smiling of face, he gets his nickname from his sandy red hair, his apple cheeks. He believes ardently in big guns and big navies but does...
...family (only three of us) every Friday after dinner-there would be a family scrap (not serious)-who gets to read TIME first- all solved now-because we take 2 copies of TIME-all happy & peace reigns supreme...
...that it is pledged to nothing. Abolition of interest ("usury"), expulsion of Jews from Germany, confiscation of department stores and the parceling out of their different departments to small merchants: these are but three pledges mouthed at Nazi mass meetings. More basic are the Party's pledges to "scrap" the Treaty of Versailles and pay not a pfennig more in Reparations-but all German statesmen have those aims...