Word: chestnut
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...Panache was a floor walker. Like his crony, The Navet, he was generally detested (all the conservatives in The Last Time I Saw Paris are detestable). "To keep M. Panache in a perpetual hell of suspicion and rage," the chestnut vendor kept whispering to him that the proprietor of the Hotel du Caveau "rented Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take...
Before TIME'S haw-haw . . . Columnist Howard C. Hosmer of the Rochester Times-Union went to considerable lengths to explain how he had fallen for the chestnut...
...stretch run that looked like Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, & floppy-eared chestnut pulled farther & farther in front. It was Mrs. Payne Whitney's The Rhymer, a four-year-old who-despite the fact that he was ridden by Eddie Arcaro, smartest jockey in the business-had been listed among "the field" in the pari-mutuel betting.-At the finish line The Rhymer was a head in front of Best Seller, a 58-to-1 shot. Third was Olympus, another "field horse...
John L. Sosman '43 of Dunster House and Chestnut Hill was elected captain of the Varsity wrestling team yesterday afternoon. Sosman, who wrestles in the 175-pound class, is entered along with 123-pound Ray Guild in the National AAU open tourney Saturday evening in Boston...
...already a chestnut, told of several other Italians by their biographers...