Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Wheelwright travelling fellowship to Leonard J. Currie, of Arlington...
...usual, there will probably be only a few prep school standouts in the Yardling crop reporting today, and inexperience will not count heavily against a candidate. Tom Bridge and Tom Cowan of Exeter, a lineman and back respectively; backfield men George Blanchard of Arlington and Wilson of Mercersburg all come to Harvard with established gridiron reputations...
...cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front of Sirocco, left 35,000 fans shaking...
...track, was given odd jobs such as checking the horses at the drinking trough on Derby day. Five years ago, Lindheimer's persistent hobby got the better of him. Hearing that Colonel Matt Winn* wanted to sell Washington Park (gradually being overshadowed by Chicago's newer, swankier Arlington Park), Lindheimer bought controlling interest in the track, became its managing director...
...society had lost its vital interests. . . . In the absence of motives its mind was becalmed." The 'gos were "a day of little faith, the day of the epigoni, the successors, in whom the nineteenth century went to seed." Soon it was time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness." Soon Poet T. S. Eliot would find Boston "the wasteland of all the modern cities where the dry stone gave no sound of water" while Boston's "learned religiosity evoked in him a singular mode of Christianity-small faith, less hope, and no charity...