Word: stud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the ship was free of the mud. The danger interval was past. But newsreel crews, photographers and reporters watching from their gallery along the elevated highway would play through many a stud game before the job was finished. The Navy would have to wait longer still before the reborn Lafayette made people forget the burned Normandie...
Boston bands take a turn for the humorous this week. The Tie Toe has sunk from Earl Hines to somebody with the unbelievable name of Stud Mosely. And the Ken, where no so many syllables of recorded time ago we heard Sidney Bechet, and J. C. Higgembotham, and Red Cless, and James P. Johnson, is featuring Sherman Kleeman's hand and a mysterious trio that not even the management knows the name of as yet. Sure it's funny. But, as Howard Mumford Jones used to say, not so damned funny...
...five-year-old Whirlaway showed none of his old flourish. Last week, in the Equipoise Mile at Washington Park, he finished out of the money for the first time since he was a temperamental two-year-old. Next day Owner Warren Wright announced Whirlaway's retirement to stud. "After all," commented Trainer Ben Jones, "it would be little short of inhumane to continue training such a great horse and run the chance of permanently maiming...
...Mexicans had expropriated. For sending them a bill for something they had been getting free, the Mexicans handed Pat their highest decoration, the Order of the Aztec Eagle. Out of the oil companies Pat got such a six-figure fee that "I could afford to keep my stud horses...
...Indian team to watch are fullback Harvey "Stud" Johnson and left guard Garrard Ramsey. A 210 pound lad from Bridgeton, New Jersey, Johnson provided the winning margin against Dartmouth last year when he kicked a 27 yard field goal and did the same thing this year with a 22 yard goal against Navy. In addition to his outstanding ability as a place kicker, "Stud" is also a powerful ball carrier and a great defensive player...