Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime U.S. citizens in the stands, and there were many, had been straining their eyes for the silks of Billy Barton, the only U.S.-bred horse in the race. For a time he had raced well. Then, at the nineteenth jump−a rail obstacle, a difficult hedge and a ditch−he faltered and fell. Tommy Cullinan, thrown, jumped up and remounted. But Billy Barton was through. He fell again and with this fall went a small fortune, including a single...
...Wife. Daughter of a beef-colored burgher, who had brewed his way into millions and respectability, Fran was. nevertheless, poised and luminous. She had been to Europe and to an Eastern finishing school; she had born and bred two children; aged 41, she looked a decade younger, for her hair was ash-blond, her figure slim. She talked occasional baby-talk to Sam, tolerated his lovemaking, entertained his friends. Her time was filled with clubs, committees, charities, and bridge; but when Sam sold out his automobile business to a motor corporation, and was temporarily free, she declared her boredom...
...have divided between them his interests in copper and oriental education: Cleveland E. is vice-president of Phelp? Dodge; Bayard is president of the American University of Beirut, Syria.† Executive Cleveland E. Dodge is neither the Professional Executive nor the onetime factory hand. He is the Dynastic Executive, bred to his position. The Dynastic Executive is a U.S. rarity; rare also is the inherited ability of Cleveland E. Dodge...
...only U. S.-bred winner (U. S.-owned horses have won it twice: Stephen Sanford's Sergeant Murphy, 1923; A. Charles Schwartz's Jack Horner, 1926). Rubio was shipped to England as a racer, failed to do well, was sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained...
...Otto) Soglow is small and shy. He is a New Yorker born and bred, still in his so's. The city gave him odd jobs to do and odd sights to see. There was drabness on one hand, pomp on the other. Mr. Soglow grew with the former, protected by a wise detachment. Determined to study painting, he attended the Art Students' League of New York, where fundamentals are taught proficiently and inexpensively. There John Sloan was his teacher...