Word: belmonte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Receiving commissions as Second Lieutenant, USMCR will be Richard V. Chisholm, Belmont, and Carl H. Reynolds 3rd, Braintree...
...buses which will travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...
Dinner for 100. The Howes were not rich. When one of the Howe maids who had worked for August Belmont said snobbishly, "Mr. Belmont keeps ten servants, Mr. Belmont keeps 20 horses," Mrs. Howe's sister retorted, "Mr. Belmont keeps everything but the Ten Commandments...
...Belmont Park last week, never-beaten Pavot (rhymes with Jimmy Savo) toyed with 14 rival two-year-olds. Despite an injured hoof, he added the Futurity Stakes (winner's share $52,200) to his seven previous victories, for a first-season total earnings of $180,350. So doing, he placed himself squarely behind a traditional eight ball: in 54 years, not one Futurity winner (Man o' War and Top Flight included) has won the Kentucky Derby the following spring...
...Futurity's 6½ furlongs and the Derby's mile-and-a-quarter might not be too long a reach for a horse with Pavot's appetite and disposition. (The only time Pavot ever showed any sign of temper was in the Hopeful Stakes at Belmont last month, when Jockey George Woolf, intent on running a front race all the way, twice tapped him between the ears with the whip, both times got a turnaround dirty look from his mount...