Word: stallions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Into Competition. In those days Pacific lived in the shadow of President Tully C. Knoles, who was wont to dress up like Buffalo Bill, with his goatee jutting, and lead parades aboard a white stallion. But when Knoles died in 1959, the school found in his longtime assistant a distinctly different leader. Eying California's booming public citadels of learning, President Robert E. Burns saw that private Pacific was out of the competition...
...daddies. Policemen. shoe. Plainclothes detective. snifter. Police dog. rosewood. Policeman's nightclub. fall. Prison term. charge account. Bail bondsman. woogy. Quarrel (verb). gin time. Time to fight. But life is not all sorrow: fox, flavor. Pretty girl. ace boon coon. Girl friend or buddy. short. Automobile. ragtop. Convertible. stallion. A man who is handsome or husky or prosperous; also, a buxom woman...
...Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller played host last week to newsmen while honeymooning at Monte Sacro, a 14,826 acre Rockefeller ranch in Venezuela. Invited by her new husband to pick any horse in the corral as a gift, the former Margaretta ("Happy") Murphy, 36, selected a Venezuelan champion stallion named Oleaje. Beamed Rocky: "She chose the best horse in the lot." Rockefeller was less proud, but amused, when Happy walked up to one animal in the cattle herd and quipped: "This is the first time I have been face-to-face with a bull." Whispered the Governor: "That...
...most adolescent atavism -dueling. Göttingen is also a notable Arbeitsuniversität (grind school), meaning that its relatively unprosperous students work extra-hard and pile up Teutonic tensions. Yet all is not blades and blood; the duelers are equally enamored of progressive jazz, hikes on picturesque "Stallion Hill," and lipstickless coeds with hair the color of sunlit beer. "There are human beings among the students too," says one hopeful official...
...proudest marque in auto racing is the rearing black stallion insignia on the hood of an Italian Ferrari. "Racing amuses me," says Enzo Ferrari, 65, a brooding, irascible genius whose rivals call him "the Monster of Maranello." At his plant near Modena, he turns out some 750 marvelously hand-crafted sports cars each year, the cheapest of which sells for $8,800. And when he puts them on the track, the customers are properly impressed. Last year, a Ferrari won the twelve-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Sebring, Fla. A Ferrari won Sicily's Targa Florio. A Ferrari...