Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: 35 1b. weight handicap --Won by Scars, 38 ft. 1 3/4 in. (handicap 11 ft.); second, MacFarlane, 33 ft. 1 1/2 in. (Handicap 16 ft.); third, Cahners, 48 ft. 5 1/4 in. (scratch...
...Macauley's Parlor A for his luggage-allowing many "sure things" to pass by in order to capture the big game. I got my man and many cumbersome pieces of luggage which I maneuvered to his waiting Twin-Six. Then I carelessly marred the finish with a small scratch from his golf bag. Said Packard's Macauley, "Boy put those bags down and get out of here!"-voice slightly raised, temper definitely lost. JOHN A. WOOD...
...National Broadcasting Co., had picked to reveal Napoleon's character. Choosing swiftly between typography and taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line of type with a chisel, smudge over the offending illustration with...
...year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since at 13 he left a Russian synagog school to become an apprentice make-up boy in a traveling opera troupe. He built a cosmetics factory in Russia, exhibited in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again from scratch in Los Angeles shortly afterward. Friendly, willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis of getting exclusive endorsements for his products. Mabel Normand was once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important...
...bureaucracy, Chief Darling soon discovered, was slower than wading through a duck marsh. When he set out to restore swamps he would find some other government agency out to drain them. When he picked some woodsy river side for a game refuge, another agency would be planning to scratch irrigation ditches through...