Word: beaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Ulen is a little suspicious of the intentions of his good friend Matt Mann. "Matt's liable to have a boy out there in Ann Arbor who's a world-beater with the fishtall kick...
...which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap shaped like an egg beater (supposed to fool the rats, it fools instead the colored maid). He has also put the family into the business of making hamburgers saturated with vodka, landing the Old Man in jail. Wanting to redeem himself, the cousin attempts to psychoanalyze the race horse. His theory is that, having...
...would have no chance. Just before he took position, it was announced that a county official had burned the Hudson County 1936 and 1937 poll books (which voters must sign as they vote and which were said to contain evidence of forgery). But Senator Tobey's beater, Investigator H. Ralph Burton, did his best to give the Senator something to shoot at. Burton scared up many a gamy allegation. Samples...