Word: turf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night he and his crony went to Pramote's lavish house. Pramote and a Ceylonese friend had just come back from the races at the Royal Turf Club. The Dwarf twirled his two Lugers, sarcastically asked Pramote: "Can you spare 300 deals?" (about $15). Pramote said his wife had all his money; she was out. The Dwarf waited. When she arrived, on a three-wheeled Siamese pedicab, he grabbed her purse; it contained only keys, a compact and some change. The Dwarf shot her in the chest, wounding her seriously...
Distinction. In Newark, Nathan Pinsky and Henry Schrier, found guilty of bookmaking, protested that they were not bookies but "turf counselors" who merely gave advice on horseflesh and charged a fee of 10% of the winnings...
...petitioners had to wait in suspense until the very week before the races. Those who were accepted were mailed a crown-embossed badge of cardboard admitting them to the coveted square of turf upon payment of ?10 for gentlemen, ?7 for ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence...
...Your well-written and illustrated piece about "Plain Ben" Jones and the Calumet stable [TIME, May 30] ... is turf reporting at its best, and has caused much favorable comment here in Derbytown...
...playing fields of the Business School; on hallowed turf...