Word: sprig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine, whose skin is as white as her well-bleached character, of being an octoroon. The only reasonable basis for such a suspicion is found in the fact that she lives in New Orleans in the days when slave traders brought their boats to harbor and when a young sprig of the aristocracy could still win a barbershop in a duel. Flourishing his razors with vigor and precision, this young sprig is able to compel the ogrish slave trader to remove the stogie from his thick lips and to admit that he has been dealing from the bottom...
...Cover of Life (Christmas Number): A girl, sitting, her legs half folded under her. In her hand a sprig of mistletoe. In her eyes pensive expectancy...
...Cover of Judge (Christmas Number): A girl, sitting, her legs half folded under her. Above her head a sprig of mistletoe. In her eyes pensive expectancy...
...ditch and stream, they charged. One by one, sweating, steaming animals with bloodshot eyes found themselves wanting; fell, pitching heartbroken men onto tough shoulderblades. Only seven horses came to the last hurdle, Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent ear to able Jockey Leader, executed a series of super-equine lunges, crossed the finish line a length ahead of Bovril III, two lengths ahead of Bright's Boy who had come up for third money...
...winner, which had competed unsuccessfully on two previous occasions, is the property of Mrs. M. Partridge, 73, by the will of her son, killed in the War. It was his dying wish that Sprig might win a Grand National. Presented to the King after the race, Mrs. Partridge expressed tearful gratitude. "I have always thought," she said, "that the old horse would do it-some...