Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petitioners had to wait in suspense until the very week before the races. Those who were accepted were mailed a crown-embossed badge of cardboard admitting them to the coveted square of turf upon payment of ?10 for gentlemen, ?7 for ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence...
...HAVEN, Conn, June 20--It was 1948 in reverse in De Witt Cuyler Field today. Last year, when Yale had a chance for the Ivy League crown, Harvard's Ira Godin shut out the Elis. This afternoon the Crimson has a chance to tie for the League crown for the first time since 1936, an opportunity which was ruined by Yale's 3 to 0 victory...
...want to run him down. If you take a hold on him, trying to save something for the end, he gets ornery and won't run at all." At the start of last week's long Belmont Stakes, toughest test of U.S. racing's "Triple Crown," Atkinson hustled Capot into the lead and prayed that nobody would press...
Alice (now known as Jenny) wears slacks and a gold crown around the house, takes an immediate fancy to Kazimir and informs him brusquely: "We will go yachting in the moonlight. Here's a check, get yourself a yacht...
...personal and political friend of Harry Truman. Tall, white-haired Tom Evans lent Truman $5,000 to help finance his 1940 senatorial campaign. In 1948 Evans gave $3,000 himself, raised $100,000 more in the Midwest. He owns Kansas City's station KCMO, is board chairman of Crown Drug Co., a chain with 85 stores in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma...