Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lectures in Room 100, Baker Library...
...gelding, singularly unimpressive when not in fast motion, he ambled back to the finish line, received a wreath of roses and an embrace from the weather-beaten driver with whom he had earned $18.000 (winner's share of the $33,000 purse) for his owner, Edward I J. Baker of St. Charles...
Driver Septus Palin, spry, brown, bandy-legged, 57, began training horses at 25 near Crawfordsville, Ind. where he grew up, now has an interest in an Indianapolis stable. He has been trainer and driver for Owner Baker, whose Greyhound was preceded by Pacers Winnipeg (1:57 1/4), Star Etawah (1 :59 1/4) and His Majesty (1 :59 1/4), for the past ten years. His silks are green & white. He wears glasses, smokes cigars, talks in monosyllables. After last week's race, Greyhound was led back to his stall, unharnessed, and fed by his stable boy a cigaret which...
...Stefan, impressionable baker who could not endure the sight of hungry people looking through his window at freshly baked bread, escapes to the country where the "soft and quiet undulation of the wheat fields" gives him a momentary vision of unmeasured miles of wheat, of stores of food so enormous that no one need go hungry...
First socialites to have themselves lugged to the track by hand were Katherine Wait, Kathleen Kennedy and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's half-sister, Gloria Baker...