Word: start
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between farm Congressmen and WPAdvocates hove into view. And the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee prepared to add heavily to the Government's overhead, to ask regular pensions of $40 a month for 65-year-old World Warriors-a cost of $31,000,000 a year to start with, $13,000,000,000 eventually...
Jimmy Hines's father was a master horseshoer in Manhattan. To profit by shoeing police and fire horses, he had to be close to the Tammany machine. His shop was a hangout for neighborhood politicians and young Jimmy, who at 14 quit eighth grade to start working in the shop, soon learned about precinct politics...
...start was a beauty, but so tightly packed was the field at the first jump that three horses went down for keeps. At the fifth jump Royal Mail faltered, and Under Bid flashed out in front. Into Becher's Brook (socalled because 100 years ago a Captain Becher came a cropper and dived under its surface in fear of the flying hoofs above him) the great Royal Danieli fell, dunking most of England's shilling bets...
Biggest fear of the Major's since the start, especially in hard times, has been that professionals might begin palming themselves off as simon-pures. But 30 years in and around the theatre have taught the Major to spot a pro as surely as a cop can spot a dip. Usually the Major's manner is kindly, helpful, encouraging, even fatherly. But when professionals appear all the love goes out of his voice. He becomes short, sharp, tries to give them the air and be done with them as soon as possible...
Course au Trésor, an attempt to beguile the French with U. S. humor as the movies and radio report it, was a big success from the start, even eliciting a letter from a Ceylon fan asking for a handicap. The 200-franc prize goes to the first arrival with the required objects, usually...