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...remaining inaccessible year after year, in mourning for her beloved husband, Prince Consort Albert. Although published "anonymously," the letter was discreetly made known as from the Royal hand. When a pile of letters from people he did not know was brought to the late, great Georges Clemenceau he usually threw away the signed ones, read the anonymous "because letters people write but do not sign always contain what is really in their hearts...
...that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed...
...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 jump. Julius Fleischmann's big chestnut gelding, Irish Lad, threw his jockey, staggered on a little farther, fell dead. At the tenth jump Red Gold fell on his head and hurt himself fatally. Eric Atterbury, codesigner of the course, was thrown from Kilbairn and had concussion of the brain. They were more than half way round before Alligator...
...Threw out 224 to 139 a Conservative motion "deploring" that the Labor Government has not protested Soviet dumping of wheat "produced by conscript labor under tyrannical administration...
...Sussex, N. J., Farmer Patrick Devine & son were in his wagon; his horse in front; his cow behind; his dog gamboling here & there. Up leaped the dog, bit the horse's nose. Terrified, horse and cow upset the wagon. Farmer Devine threw his son out, jumped, caught his foot in a chain, was killed under the wheels...