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Said the princely Arabian donor, patting the horse's flank: "His name, Signor Premier, is 'Said,' which means 'Good Fortune.'" Pleased, the somewhat superstitious* Duce responded: "So! I will ride him every day. I will remember daily your loyalty. May the All Highest protect...
...Wild Ride. At five one morning the Premier set out upon a three-day visit to the vast, imposing and astonishingly well preserved ruins of Sabrata, "the Marble City," and Leptis Magna, both sumptuously adorned by that potent Roman whose name sprawls in great capitals across many a still standing architrave: IMPERATOR -CAESAR -AUGUSTUS -LUCIUS -SEPTIMIUS -SEVERUS...
About a score of years ago the heart of Harvard University was torn with maddened anguish. A Radcliffe lady--Mrs. Ride Johnson Young--had perpetrated a play called "Brown of Harvard." It was like nothing the staid precincts of the Harvard Yard had ever seen or hoped to see. Conservative alumni gnashed their teeth in impotent frenzy. Undergraduates, not conservative at all, greeted the Boston opening of the play with senescent garden produce...
...life under a handicap. They know that they are expected to do badly so that the older generation can use the phrase, "He's not the man his father was." Who would expect, say, the son of Steve Donoghue, England's greatest jockey to be able to ride? Or, if he could ride, who would expect him to win a horserace? And even if he won a horserace, who would expect him to win it on a 100 to 1 shot while his father, badly beaten, came tottering in unplaced...
Jockey Donoghue has a son, Pat by name, 15 by age. He can ride horses. The horse he rode last week was W. J. Belleroy's King of Clubs, the race the Lincolnshire Handicap. Steve Donoghue, on Argeia, came in unplaced...