Word: dit
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...laced with sherry. In summer, the team of Pons & Kostelanetz earns $5,500 a night. The 300,000 people they have attracted to Chicago's Grant Park of a summer evening is the biggest crowd ever assembled to hear good music. Says Lily Pons: "On m'a dit que only dictators peuvent get crowds like that." And, underlining Kosty's part in the partnership, she has trilled: "A woman who is not happy cannot sing nice...
...Farm's Gallahadion, with Carroll Bierman up, whom few had noticed inching his way along the rail. With powerful strides, Gallahadion pulled farther & farther away, reached the wire a length and a half ahead of Big Bim, who was desperately struggling to keep Arnold Hanger's Dit from second place...
...future books-first time in Derby history that a horse was quoted an odds-on favorite before the day of the race. While bookmakers stopped taking bets on Big Bim, horse players turned their attention to his dwarfed rivals: Arnold Hanger's Dit (winner of last week's Wood Memorial), William L. Brann's Pictor (who romped off with the Chesapeake Stakes fortnight ago), Charles S. Howard's Mioland (pride of the West Coast), Tony Pelleteri's Andy K. (Mr. Big's chief rival last year). They kept their fingers crossed, remembering well that...