Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning of the second day a dory containing five men from the Rose was picked up by the gasoline boat Amacitia off the coast of Nova Scotia. They had rowed 80 miles. A few minutes later, eight miles away, the Amacitia sighted another dory with four men from the Parker. One boat rowed all the way to land. Within 40 hours of the crash every last man had turned up, little the worse for wear. Captain Albert Hines of the Rose calculated that he and his own dory-mates had rowed 150 miles. The others didn't bother...
...time the Fair opened Director Downes got his second wind. Banking on patriotic fervor rather than musical interest, he succeeded in getting Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to hire the New York Philharmonic-Symphony for a concert or two apiece of their own national tunes. Nobody else was interested. But there were enough Norwegians, Brazilians, Poles, Rumanians and Swiss to make a crowd. Aging Walter Damrosch and youthful John Barbirolli were drafted to conduct a concert apiece in the Fair's blimplike Hall of Music. Only really impressive bit of music up to last week was a special...
...year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term contract to MGM, which hopes to make him a second Freddie Bartholomew. The other is Greer Garson, who makes an impressive cinema debut as the short-lived Mrs. Chips...
...lengths last fortnight, horse-racing fans hailed an-other Man o' War. Turf experts reserved their opinions. They wanted to see long-striding Johnstown run in the mud, something he had not been asked to do this year. Last week there was lots of mud for the Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds. So convinced of Big John's prowess were rival owners that only five were willing to risk the $500 starting fee (day before) to match their hopefuls against the Woodward colt...
...John, coupled in the betting with Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps's Gilded Knight,* was still an overwhelming favorite-despite the mud-when 30,000 horse-enthusiasts crammed the mid-Victorian stands at historic old Pimlico, on the outskirts of Baltimore, for the 49th running of the Preakness Stakes. Second choice was Challedon, who had finished second to Big John in the Derby and was reputed to like sloppy going...