Word: turf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen of England waited beside Court No. 1. Her shapely hands were folded in her lap, her pale eyes looked politely down at the green square of turf whereon the person she awaited would shortly appear. "Shortly," officials assured her, bending anxiously over the back of the Royal Box; "á l´instant," said agitated Jean Borotra, hurrying up to explain. The Queen waited, the crowd waited, the green square of turf waited -but Suzanne Lenglen did not come...
Marshal Saxe: "It is impossible not to admire (although he once set out to invade England) that high-spirited batard de Roi, Marshal Saxe. ... To wrap it up pleasantly, in the quaint language of the turf, he would have started 100 to 1, and no takers, for the Continence Gold Cup. . . . His father (Augustus the Strong) was well called the Strong: he had 353 illegitimate children...
...held, has by its indoor showing more than justified the confidence expressed by partisans of the Blue. The Orange and Black, which pulled a surprise in 1924 by carrying the trophy back to New Jersey, is building a now team and the Harvard quartet is always stronger on turf than on tanbark. Winners last year, the Crimson poloists will return to the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club this month favored to furnish heavy opposition. A bye has been drawn by the Cambridge outfit in the first round, leaving Princeton as its most likely opponent before the final round...
...head starter at Churchill Down was talking to a glistening, shifting wall of thoroughbreds, which nudged and minced and hesitated at one end of a green lane of Kentucky turf under a gold-and-blue sky. With one word more he would send them away, down the green lane, around a white-fenced circle for a mile and a quarter. The 75,000 turbulent shadows packed along the stretch would roar for two minutes, and one more Kentucky Derby would be over. Two minutes and a few seconds - two minutes for which the jockeys had trained for months, for which...
...brown bees of Ireland are never forgotten, in their clean skips by golden-thatched cottages. And blue turf smoke is there, and all the birds of Ireland...