Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...electrical workers picketed the Triangle Conduit & Cable Co. in Flushing, L. I., then President John McAuliffe's house, then his country club...
Oldtime turfmen like Poloist Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches...
...manage its new plant, the Golden Gate Turf Club has hired silver-tongued Edward P. ("Slip") Madigan, longtime football coach at St. Mary's College. Slip Madigan knows no more about horse racing than the average $2 better. But neither did Dr. Charles H. Strub, the ex-dentist whose managerial genius made Santa Anita the most fabulous race track in the U. S. If Madigan can do as good a job for Golden Gate Park as he did for little St. Mary's, he will be well worth his $15,000-a-year salary...
...hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers probably get their money's worth...
...gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster"); or the love-and-golf short stories of that Ancient Mariner of the links, the Club Bore...