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Last week Colonel Bradley, an erect old gentleman with a tall hard collar and high black shoes, was already on hand at Churchill Downs to inspect his horses and, incidentally, to watch two of them. Barn Swallow and Tick On, come in second and third in the Clark Handicap, first day's feature at the track and a race as old as the Derby...
...triple her present army of 100,000 men. With France and Germany thus deadlocked, Sir John persuasively urged upon II Duce that the present is no time to take the League of Nations apart and see if it can be put together in a way to make it really tick...
...prize at stake. It is the largest ranch in Texas, the largest in the U. S., and, so far as can be definitely learned, the largest in the world. On its 1,250,000 acres graze 125,000 cattle which, at proper seasons, are rounded up or tick-dipped or dehorned or castrated or branded by some 300 highly skilled Mexican cowboys. These acres have been valued at $8,750,000, the cattle at 85,590,000, the horses at $250,000. the artesian wells, the 265 windmills, the concrete ranch houses, the 1,500 miles of fences and other...
...minute intervals. At 10:30 a. m. he takes a nap. Like most featured players he has two "stand-ins"' (understudies) to take his place on the set while lights and props are being ar ranged. He likes baked potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair, a four-post...
...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...