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...field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue. He had broken his shoulder, escaped death by the width of a horseshoe...
...that a husband could no longer indulge in "moderate correction" of his wife, which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable for the mischievous behavior of his wife...
...scene they had been observing. Also last week, inhabitants of the human world attending" a tea-party at the New York Zoological Park (the Bronx) beheld two creatures new and strange-two fabulous white-breasted birds, from whose relatively small bodies grew sweeping scythes of wings seven inches in width, eight feet in spread. They were Galapagos albatrosses sent-together with marine iguanas-by Explorer Beebe to the New York Zoological Society...
...beheld him then for the first time since the August day when he crumpled, limp as a leveret, from his mount at Saratoga, rose shouting to welcome him. Amid wilder shouting, he rode J. S. Ward's Worthmore, pulled him over the line to win by the width of a lead pencil from H. P. Whitney's Noah in the famed Paumonok Handicap...
Premier. When Premier Edouard Herriot issued his political program last year (TIME, June 30), he probably did not realize the depth and width of the religious quarrel he was engendering...