Word: whippet
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Romans have thrilled to all manner of races-chariot races, horse races, automobile races, airplane races. But last week Romans saw their first whippet (dog) races. Six of the fleetest whippets raced were owned by the Contessa Dentice Di Frasso, once Miss Dorothy Taylor of Manhattan. Present were the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher...
...which Will Rogers sang together with Andy Tombes. La-de-da was the refrain of the song and its name was the Lard Song; in the course of it, Andy Tombes interrupted his singing to ask Will Rogers whether he had heard about the Scotchman who went to the whippet races. "Yes," said Rogers, "and he bet on the hare...
Colonial at 8.20--"Thurston the Great Magician." The great sensation is the vanishing Whippet car and ten beautiful girls. That's just it,--the car vanished, and the ten little girls had to walk home...
...Willys-Overland, Whippet...
Willys-Knight, Whippet Buick...