Word: ditch
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...manner of jumpers, and slowly, for the finish in front of the club enclosure was four and a half miles away around the serpentine folds of the course. Grasslands Downs is not so hard as the famous course at Aintrée, but hard enough; it has 14 fences, ditches, water-jumps, some of them with difficult drops to sloping ground, whereas at Aintrée the drops are generally level. The first five fences behind them, the horses crossed the first ditch and had their tails to the stands. The horses going fast in front were falling at every...
...inimitable style is beginning to be copied. Benchley, a serious fellow-humorist, points out that Arno and the New Yorker between them have popularized the one-line joke (e. g.-a man driving a car pulls up beside a huge truck half on its side in a ditch, inquires politely: ''Tip over?"). ''Peter Arno may not have been the first to make use of the overheard remark as a basis for a drawing, but he has made himself the High Priest of the school by now. ... To see one of Peter Arno's illustrations...
...Johore, himself one of the greatest living shikari, told him about a tiger who had killed and eaten a coolie on one of the rubber plantations. Man-eating is an acquired taste among tigers. Usually the animals find the smell of a man unpleasant. Animalcatcher Buck dug a ditch, caught the animal which nearly scrambled out because it was too big for the ditch. It had to be lassoed like a Texas steer, pulled up to the mouth of the hole while a box was slipped under it. This specimen is now in Longfellow Zoological Park, Minneapolis...
...will oppose Democratic .Nominee John M. Hemphill, militant Wet, in the November election. Normally a Democrat's chances in Penn's Woods are negligible. This year, however, Boss Vare's Philadelphia G. O. P., smarting under its primary defeat and nursing old grudges, is reported ready to ditch Nominee Pinchot and support Nominee Hemphill sufficiently to bring him within striking distance of Harrisburg...
Raymond-Marie Cardinal Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec, was dangerously bruised and cut when a blowout crashed his motor into a ditch near Levis, Quebec. Last rites had been administered, but prayers continued to go up from many a church in the Cardinal's province. The Cardinal convalesced...