Show the name Is familiar 0 BY FELIX B and ELMO SCOTT WATSON the derby W T HETHER youre referring to a race run at epsom downs in england or at churchill downs in kentucky and whether you pronounce it derby or darby it adds up to the same thing viz every time you use that word youre perpetuating the name of a sporting english nobleman the twelfth ear earl I 1 of derby I 1 away back in 1780 the earl offered a prize of 50 gold sovereigns in in a sweepstakes r race for three year old colts this race was called the epsom derby race in honor of the donor I 1 of the prize e and the place an where it was run epsom in surrey the famous diomed owned by earl 0 of derby rby olied sir C bunbury banbur Y won the first epsom derby race and it until 1787 that one of the earls colts sir peter beazle came in first more than years were to pass before another derby fa family in entry would win again that was San sovino in 1924 in the meantime this race had become the most famous in english turf history gradually the british horsemen dropped two words from its name and it became THE derby meanwhile too the id idea ea had crossed the atlantic and the kentucky derby run annually near louisville is ky and the american derby at washington park south of chicago were the result since then weve had a variety of derbies cant you just imagine the twelfth earl coming back as a ghost and exclaiming eh what a bunion derby and a soap box derby my word you americans ARE a queer lot 0 0 prince albert VICTORIA of england Q QUEEN left her name on history as the synonym for propriety and respectability but her royal consort is remembered if at all by the name of a coat yet that is not inappropriate for what man does not take on dignity and character as a prominent citizen when he dons a prince albert on february 10 1840 the youthful queen of engi eng i land was married to her cousin albert princa prince of saxe coburg and gotha second son of the then reigning duke and not the least of the distinctions of her long reign is the exalted confidence and concord that marked her relations with her her husband As prince consort of the tha monarch of the great prince albert est empire in the world prince albert shunned ostentation tation and sank his own existence in that of his wife and yet all the time he was a positive and recognized influence not only in the family circle but in the state for it was he who was chiefly responsible for the great exhibition held in the crystal palace in london in 1851 thus in addition to being remembered for the style of coat which he made popular he might be written down in history as the father of the worlds fair FOR two years 1863 65 19 year old anthony comstock as a soldier in the union army fought to save the union for nearly 50 years thereafter until his death in 1915 as one of the founders and permanent secretary of the new york society for the suppression of vice he fought to save new york city and the whole country for that matter from the forces of evil sometimes his zea zeal had queer results there was the case of the famous picture september morn A new york art dealer had 2000 copies of the picture which he sell harry reichenbach a famous press agent A comstock tricked comstock into denouncing the picture as one which would undermine the morals of the youth of the land and starting court action to stop its sale due to the tree free advertising that the picture thus received more than copies were sold at 1 eachl each look in the dictionary and you will find the virtuous anthonys name nam e preserved there in the wore 1 which is defined as zealous prosecution of immorality in books P papers apers and pictures hence in a derogatory sense prudery released by western newspaper union |