Word: beau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owen D. Young she finds her beau idéal. Her investigations for his biography, carried on at her Connecticut farm, at the General Electric Co.'s plant at Schenectady, at her E. 19th St. retreat in New York City, lead her to say at their conclusion: "My best research failed to show him as less good than he looks." More a historian of business ethics than a biographer of men, had not its hero announced that he is positively out of the Presidential running, her book (being serialized in American Magazine} would make a first-class campaign...
Turfman Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of world's largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap- Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root...
...earnings were $332,250, second to Sun Beau's all-time record of $356.044. His disposition was eccentric but calm. He liked to roll in sand every day, had a special sand pile to do it in. At the post or when traveling, he was intelligently placid. A great subject of racetrack conversation was the method of Phar Lap's training. In the U. S., horses are given constant rigorous tests for speed. Phar Lap engaged in almost no speed trials at all. He cantered slowly for long distances to improve his stamina, stretch all his muscles slowly...
Where are the attorneys general who are supposed to keep the Governors of the respective States advised? Or is the proposal merely a political beau geste? In any event, if false impressions and hopes are being built up in cotton, perhaps to be followed in other commodities, isn't a clarification of the situation such news as the Press should give the public as well as to bewildered lawyers. DAVID STOCK New York City...
...Twenty Grand, 3-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Cup, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., beating Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun Beau, world's record money-winner ($356,044) by eight lengths. Sir Ashley† by 81 Mate, who has beaten Twenty Grand in two out of three starts this year, was withdrawn a week before the race with a deep cut in his left hind...