Word: started
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubmen opened their mail, last week, with a start of surprise. They were used to advertisements of automobiles, investments, shaving soaps. But they were not used to elaborate, detailed advertisements of champagne. As everyone knows, bootleg champagne in the U. S, market is priced at $10-$15 a quart. These beguiling advertisements suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality...
...nose to make him (or her) inefficient. It was tried last week at Empire City, N. Y., on a five-year-old mare named Alita Allen, a 4 to 5 favorite. But she won the race by four lengths, the sponge having been discovered and removed before the start...
...Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorologist, injured, with Capts Mariano & Zappi, pilot and navigator, quit Nobile camp, start to walk to land...
...Gloucester, Captain of the loth Hussars, who is the king's third son, Prince Henry, paraded to the barrier on Jehu,† a tall gelding which belonged to his friend, Capt. E. A. Elgee. A fairly large gallery cheered when the Hussar Duke got off to a clever start. Coming into the stretch, he was a length and a half behind Aquilon, last year's winner. The Hussar Duke urged his horse, stooping in his stirrups, but Jehu was tired. Aquilon finished first, Mr. Polly second, Jehu third. Bookmakers made money, but several of the Duke...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...