Word: belmontized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...
...William du Pont's Rosemont, Jockey Wayne Wright up: the Withers Stake, with Omaha, William Woodward's winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, second by 1½ lengths; at Belmont Park...
...Motion Picture Research Council was formed in Manhattan in 1927 to study the cinema, try to improve its morals. Last spring, after publishing the results of its studies in nine volumes, the Council elected Mrs. August Belmont president to replace Harvard's aging A. Lawrence Lowell, announced that it would try to make active use of its enormous background of information in actually improving the cinema. Last week the Motion Picture Research Council bestirred itself again and 1) elected Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, long, lean, pouch-eyed President of Stanford University and one-time (1929-33) Secretary...
...Sophomore Crew Manager competition, Benjamin R. Townsend, of Paoli, Penn., was elected second assistant manager, Thomas J. Darcey, Jr., of Belmont, second associate manager, and C. Vaughn Ferguson, Jr., of Schenectady, N. Y., interhouse crew manager...
...Nashville, Tenn., Lecturer Ralph Pearson inadvertently included in a lantern slide lecture of the world's artistic monstrosities a slide of Nashville's own replica of the Parthenon. The audience, socialite young women of the Ward-Belmont School, stanchly applauded...