Word: thingumabob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thingumabob . . . gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead" (TIME, Aug. 22). Let TIME or veterinary scientists explain why broken ankles and legs cannot be set, why valuable horseflesh is sacrificed. There must be a reason, other than such horses' usefulness as moneymakers (or losers) is ended...
Last week another young racehorse which racegoers thought destined to be great was led to the Saratoga barrier for another Sanford Memorial. This comer was Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson's Thingumabob, a two-year-old. He had run away with his two previous starts this season, had become the highest juvenile money-earner of the year ($31,810) by winning the rich Arlington Futurity. For the Sanford he was such a favorite that his odds, 1-to-4, were the shortest quoted all season at Saratoga...
...start Thingumabob bobbled. He was way back in seventh place at the end of the first sixteenth. Then he began to move up. At the end of the first furlong he was in second place, coming up in an open switch on the inside of Ariel Toy, the pacemaker. Suddenly Ariel Toy closed the switch by cutting towards the rail. Thingumabob reared, then crumpled. His right front ankle had snapped above the fetlock. He limped to the outside fence, fell to his knees, gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead...
...with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer to the thingumabob business, Scrambled Eggs, Inc. took its name from its first product, an egg-shaped puzzle...