Word: warms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Price Headley's Menow; the Champagne Stakes, last warm-up race for two-year-olds before the Belmont Futurity; at Belmont Park, N. Y. Mrs. Ethel Mars' Sky Larking, even-money favorite and generally rated the most promising two-year-old of the season, stumbled while leading the field, broke a leg and was destroyed...
They're here. Newspaper readers outside the city read about the impressive display with thrills of patriotic pride. New York merchants and hostel keepers warm to an inflow of money. Seven million New York civilians, now living in a state of joyous excitement, will be glad when the invaders go, for military shows are still so rare in this country as to be terrifying...
...blood and rows of grimy bodies, barely distinguishable from the dusty wreckage, clutter the smashed sidewalk. Stinking human garbage (the street-cleaners have tied handkerchiefs around their mouths and noses), big chunks of it insufficiently wrapped, is dumped on open trucks. Later, as the trucks are unloaded, the still-warm, flexible dead are flopped out like a big catch of fish...
...league baseball has no such deep-rooted "the-show-must-go-on" tradition as exists in the theatre, for one reason because baseball's cast changes every day. So when Gomez started to walk out onto the field last week to warm up for the game he was scheduled to pitch against the Senators, the Yankees' bulky manager, Joe McCarthy, approached him with a sympathetic look on his face and a telegram in his pocket, told him that his mother was dead. "You don't have to pitch today, fella," said McCarthy. ''Your time...
...twelve clubs competing last week, strangest and best was that of the Chicago Lawn Bowling Club, all of whose members bore the name McArthur. Its skip, lean, 23-year-old Lachlan D. (for nothing) McArthur, created a sensation by his technique of swinging the bowl in a semicircle to warm up, following it anxiously down the green to encourage it by urgently waving his hands. Playing with his Uncles Duncan, Roger and James, young Bowler McArthur skipped Chicago Lawn successfully through the final against the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Club...