Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...
...fancy boxes for toilet articles and his mother made cakes with elaborate icings that he recalls, were "too beautiful to eat." Steinberg spent seven years studying architecture in Milan before finally giving in to his own inherited taste for lighthearted art. He found it no work at all to whip up drawings that were usually biting, and sometimes skirted close to the beautiful as well. Commissions for The New Yorker helped bring him to Manhattan...
...first time, says one old friend, is like being "involved in an extremely unpleasant motor crash." But neither his barbed manner nor the arrogance of his column is any accident. Says Cassandra: "I know how to be hostile, suspicious and skeptical. I can wield these unlovable qualities like a whip...
...late Poetess Gertrude (Tender Buttons) Stein and her constant companion and autobiographee Alice B. Toklas, used to have gay old times together in the kitchen. Some of the unique delicacies that were whipped up will soon be catalogued by the U.S. publisher, Harper & Bros., in a wildly epicurean tome called The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, which is already causing excited talk on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps Alice's most gone concoction (and also a possible clue to some of Gertrude's less earthly lines) was her hashish fudge ("which anyone could whip...
Even with experienced racers, Andy explained, his jockeys often have orders to take it easy. Determine, he said, could have won the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs this spring; instead, the little grey colt ran second to Hasty Road. "My boy had instructions not to whip my horse, not to touch him, not to drive him." At Chicago's Arlington Park, when Imbros ran on a sloppy track in the Equipoise Mile, "our instruction was to ease the horse back to dead last as quick as possible because we didn't want to hurt...