Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was dawn outside, but in the long stables at the New Orleans Fair Grounds where week before last the winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of...
Fire moves quickly in wooden barns. An oil stove in the men's quarters of the Reether Stable had somehow exploded. Two minutes later a snake of fire ran down the corridor between the stalls of the horses, licking at wisps of straw. All the horses were awake now. They...
Pan American. Because the women golfers who travel from tournament to tournament had nothing to do between autumn days in the East and the first southern events in February, a committee in Biloxi, Miss., organized an event for them two years ago. For a reason never clear and now forgotten...
John Henry Newman was born in London in 1801, of well-to-do and cultured parents. He was destined to intellectual struggle and religious leadership. Even as a schoolboy at Dr. Nicholas's Academy for Young Gentlemen, at Ealing, he was considered an impressive speaker, and "was selected to deliver...
The Biographer. J. Lewis May was born in London (1873) and lives there, but his family still consider themselves natives of Devonshire. After a number of years in France he became literary advisor and reader for Publishers John Lane and Elkin Mathews; was made general editor of Lane's English...