Word: belmonts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection of early New England industrial products from the old-Manning Manse at Billerica has just been presented to the Business School by W.H. Manning of Belmont, as illustrative of the industrial development of the country...
Unfair newspapers headlined "Vote Slacker" when Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, suffragette and political matron, announced that she had never voted and never would until U. S. women should "place in the field" a Presidential candidate. Mrs. Belmont did not say whether or not the candidate would have to be a woman...
...owners who had bought him for less than a quarter of that amount, valued him at more than twice that amount. There would be the Overnight at Jamaica, a debut won as a whippet would win from airdales, the Keene Memorial and the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont, two races at Aqueduct-five golden afternoons, all full of sunshine and moving figures, the smell of grass and leather, the sound of cheers and hurrying hoofs...
Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet...
Race-track johnnies recalled that Man o' War won a "walkover" (one-horse-race) at Belmont Park in his prime, that Exterminator captured the Saratoga Cup in 1921 without opposition. Walkovers are made possible by the racetrack rule that once a race is scheduled it must be run, weather permitting, unless each and every entry drops...