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...grace; and he needed a touch of the whip to bring him up to the barrier-a touch that made him sulky. Jockey Kummer, instead of Jockey Haynes, had the leg up and rode an adequate race except for that one rash touch. Away they went-a flash of silk, a huddle of bobbing heads at the turn, one, two, pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise Counsellor first; second, Big Blaze; third, Sun Flag; fourth, Initiate; fifth, Epinard, limping, staggering. A quarter crack...
...years of age, started life as a mining engineer. When the South African War broke out, he joined up and served until 1901. Home again, he devoted himself to journalism, studied law at the Middle Temple, was called to the Bar in 1904. In 1919 he took silk-i. e., became a King's Counsellor...
...wearing of jewelry, other ornaments or silk...
...cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods and climes; paintings and panels by Jan van Beers, contemporary Dutchman; silver and pewter ; miniatures in enamel and ivory; silhouettes and medallions; cameos, intaglios, jewelry, ornaments; U. S. and British drums from the Revolution; a British silk battle flag; early U. S. prints; three bronze treasure caskets, elaborately fashioned, carefully following Gothic models of famed Venetian chests, which had been constructed in Paris expressly for Mr. Belasco's production of the Merchant of Venice...
...School and his associates, acting as a jury to select the best advertisement of the year, will face a difficult task when they endeavor to choose the winners of the Bok Award. Picture the dilemma of the able jurists when forced to decide whether the suggestive appeal of a silk-stockinged maiden is capable of selling more merchandise than the almost absolute purity of floating soap. But it cannot be expected that the choice will be as simple a problem as all that. Too much is at stake...