Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Australian cricket team visited Balmoral Castle and asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all sides, all the camera fans sat down...
...first run in 1776: Black Tarquin,* owned by the chairman of New York's Jockey Club, William Woodward. In the Derby, Black Tarquin had finished eighth, and most bettors figured that he lacked staying powers for the mile-and-three-quarters St. Leger. The American colt, ridden by Australian Jockey Edgar Britt, settled down well to the rear, made no move until the stretch. Then, with only two furlongs to go, he put on a brilliant burst of speed to win from Alycidon, an outsider, by a length and a half. In sixth place: My Love, just ahead...
...first set at love, racing into the forecourt in the wake of his stinging service. For a moment or two, the crowd thought they might be seeing a tennis match. But by the seventh game, Parker had figured out the Sidwell serve, and was methodically running the Australian ragged with lobs to the base line and trap shots just over the net. Parker won without cracking a smile or dropping...
Christina Stead's prose is as hard and cold as a cake of ice. A sharp-eyed Australian now living in the U.S., Miss Stead specializes, with the murderous calm of a hangman slightly bored by his job, in dissecting egotists and connivers. One of her better novels, House of All Nations, was a long, superbly documented description of the world of high finance, which viciously satirized the European big money and led some critics to compare her, rather prematurely, to Balzac...
...perfect control, and he tantalized the left-handed Czech with frequent line placements on his left side. Between sets, Sidwell sat down to catch his breath, keeping Drobny waiting, and picked himself up with great deliberation whenever he slipped on the dewy grass. Uncharitable spectators figured that the Australian was just grandstanding; but insiders knew that Sidwell had to take things easy after a nervous collapse from overtraining early this year. Only a hundred spectators were still-around when Sidwell...