Word: stall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon the proverbial inattention of racegoers. Although it was true that Discovery was defeated by Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery, a long-striding chestnut colt, has been making himself the outstanding handicap racehorse on the U. S. turf...
...Supreme Court had proved so footling; William Green and John L. Lewis to whom NRA was a professional gift from heaven; dapper Averell Harriman who manned NRA after its first champions had departed; gawky Attorney General Cummings who had tried to enforce NRA; Felix Frankfurter whose advice to stall off as long as possible a clear-cut court test of NRA's constitutionality had proved so ingloriously wrong...
...President Roosevelt that Representatives were not getting proper service on their requests for patronage, that one prominent official had actually insulted patronage-seekers by telling them to "go to hell." The President said he would investigate. As the delegation marched out one Representative grumbled: "That's just a stall...
...Hoover was in the White House and the Cabinet was all of one sex. When Miss Perkins looked over her own office in the new building she found it satisfactory. Opening a door she stepped happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski is her right-hand man, her invaluable...
...Baxter gives by far his best performance; Myrna Loy is even more expert than usual as Dan's sympathetic sister-in-law who helps him groom Broadway Bill for the Derby, pawns her clothes to pay the entry fee. Good shot: Broadway Bill's rooster mascot crowing in his stall...