Word: windsors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Johnny Hayes, in 1908, ran the most exciting marathon since the one in 480 B.C., whereby Phidippides carried the news of a battle over cliff roads to Sparta. The 1908 marathon was run over English high ways from Windsor Castle past Slough, Wexham, Heath, Ruislip. Wembley, to a stadium 26 miles and 480 yards from the start. Marathon races were well-patronized then; the greatest of runners was Dorando, a confectioner from the island of Capri. Hayes was 22, the son of an East Side Manhattan Irish baker; he was 5 ft. 3 ¾ in. tall and his number...
...power of the pictured word. He also employs Cartoonist James ("Jimmie") Swinnerton, who pictures Tammany as a little tiger-yegg with a slouch cap; Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, of "Happy Hooligan" fame, who pictures Tammany as an old-man-of-the-sea on the donkey's back; Cartoonist Windsor McCay, nightmare man, creator of "Little Nemo," who illustrates the Hearst Sunday supplements with shuddersome, anti-Tammany compositions...
Just before the Court left for Scotland Her Majesty motored out from Windsor Castle, quite unaccompanied except by her chauffeur, for a visit to the Berkshire nursing home. What happened next became a secret which has been weeks in leaking...
When a bar was installed at the Royal Albert Hall, last week, just 61 years after its foundation, the first person to order a drink was The Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to His Majesty, and Dean of Windsor...
...eard o' the Widow at Windsor...