Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place where wars started. Even such tiny fragments of the masses as detached themselves temporarily for cultural adventuring in Europe seldom penetrated the interior as far as Budapest. With London they were theatrically acquainted, with Paris, with Berlin, and even to a slight extent with Vienna and Moscow. The barrier of distance plus the barrier of language, almost insuperable except to the penetrating student, blocked cultural roads to Budapest. Then some wandering prospector struck dramatic gold, Liliom was produced, and Hungary became the cynosure of caravans of U. S. theatre men hurrying across the wastes of Central Europe in covered...
Thoroughbred horse-racing returned to Chicago after an absence of 20 years. The first barrier went up on an Inaugural Handicap and down the stretch came Judge Pryor, a 12-to-l shot. Responsible for the recultivation of turf in Chicago-the Chicago Business Men's Racing Association; for oral betting-the Illinois Anti-Betting Law and a squad of gumshoe...
...clock on a summery afternoon the bugle blew and 50,000 eyes turned to the gate from the paddock to watch the procession up the track. At the starting post Harry F. Sinclair's Mad Play, the favorite, Sande up, drew inside position. Up shot the barrier with a deafening roar from the stands as the horses simultaneously broke to a splendid start. Mad Play gained an immediate lead by saving ground in rounding the first turn. Hard pressed for the whole 1⅛ miles, Mad Play succeeded in maintaining his lead and finally won by 1½ lengths...
...hundreds of thousands of people found their way to Epsom Downs. But pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes, so important to Derby Days, were all wrapped up in raincoats, and the only splash of color was that supplied by the gypsies. As the field of 27 faced the barrier, the good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might see the getaway. "They're off!" shouted thousands of voices, but one by one the horses returned behind the barrier; Jockey Donoghue's mount, Defiance, had "broken." The second "They're off!" proved correct. Lord Astor...
Those two beasts of burden, the Elephant and the Donkey, who began a year since to blow trumpet calls of allegiance to all Republicans and Democrats, were severely criticized for warming up for their race so long before the call to the barrier. Apparently no harm has been done, for although much water has since flowed under the bridges, they but made themselves fit for the great mud battle of March and April in Washington...