Word: three-year-old
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Tomaso shook his head and walked on. Suddenly a shadow came abreast of him. It was the steam roller, slow, driverless. Tomaso saw that there were dark stains on the white rollers. They were bloodstains. Fifty yards behind, three-year-old Rose Delauney, playing with her doll on the sidewalk, cried: "Come quick, papa. Come quick. Monsieur bleeds...
...proud bearing and his showmanship set him apart from the pack. As a three-year-old, he did not run in the Kentucky Derby (in fact, he never ran a race in his native state), but he won the Belmont by 20 lengths. One good horse, John P. Grier, made Red extend himself one day at Aqueduct, and nobody who saw the race will ever forget it. The pair of them ran nose-&-nose, breaking world's records at every furlong pole along the way (the five furlongs in 157 2/5, the six furlongs in 1:09, the mile...
...babies. Said Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Great Neck, Long Island: "I believed there was no escape from the plane. . . . The babies' screams just tore every mother's heart to pieces. Every woman would say, There, there.' But that was about all they ever said. Our three-year-old son, Gordon, spent hours on his father's knee . . . never saying a word. We said ten thousand goodbyes with our eyes that...
...Fitzwilliam, N.H., Sheriff Arthur Jennison's lugubrious-looking bloodhound, Queenie, galumphed steadily through the night, led a baffled search party straight to bushes in which its elusive quarry was sitting. The quarry: three-year-old Louis Dunton, who had left home, taken off his clothes and wandered through the woods for six hours...
Astute, bespectacled Jacob ("Jack") Kapp bought an armful of children's small-sized records at the dime store to try on one of the three phonographs in his house. His three-year-old daughter Myra didn't like them. So Kapp, who is president of Decca Records. Inc., recorded a group of Mother Goose stories just for Myra, on standard-size discs. Myra liked them so much that Kapp put the records on sale...