Word: beau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yorkshire Likes Pluck." As a matter of fact, Scot MacDonald was by no means near the end. Laborite M. P.'s who had deserted him fortnight ago were beginning to feel sheepish. Britons who love a beau geste were deliriously enthusiastic. The Downing Street mailbag was stuffed with telegrams and letters of support, not a few from the U. S. A candy manufacturer sent $5,000 for the Government's emergency fund. An unknown workman sent $6, half his week's pay. From Yorkshire came a pencilled postcard: "Come to Yorkshire and we will find thee...
...Government made a beau geste to business when it did not appeal the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis permitting Standard Oil Co. of New York and Vacuum Oil Co. of New York to merge (TIME, June 15). Straightway every oil merger rumor of the last three years came to life. Last week a gusher of oil news spouted on the front page of every newspaper. Of greatest magnitude was the announcement that...
...year-old in 1927, Sun Beau won one race and lost three. There was nothing then to mark him as a good race horse nor was there the next year when he lost two-thirds of his 23 races. The next year, Sun Beau won six races out of 14 in which he started. Because he won five of them in September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season...
Mike Hall was one of the starters in the Arlington Handicap last week, feature race of the last day of Chicago's principal summer race meeting. He finished fourth. First by three lengths was six-year-old Sun Beau. The winner's prize, $27,300, added to his previous winnings, made him the greatest money horse in the history of the U. S. turf, with $330,044 compared to the $328,165* which Gallant Fox had won when he was retired last autumn. A U. S. horse who has won more than Sun Beau: Goldsmith Maid, trotting mare...
...Willis Sharpe Kilmer's six-year-old race horse Sun Beau: the $19,450 Arlington Cup race, at Chicago, increasing his total winnings to $302,794 ($37,871 below the record made by Gallant...