Word: butler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaudily lit tracks, the "trots" were giving a good run to thoroughbred flat racing, which drew 34 million customers in 1960. And along with its burgeoning attendance records and parimutuel handles, harness racing had something special to boast about: its own Man o' War, a horse named Adios Butler, thought by many to be the best pacer ever...
...fast-stepping mahogany stallion with a white star on his forehead, the Butler was picked up at the 1957 Harrisburg, Pa., yearling sales for a paltry $6,000. Since then, he has won 26 out of 39 races, captured $355,844 in purses, brought $600,000 from his sale to a syndicate. Last year he became the world's fastest pacer by stepping off a 1:54.6 mile at Lexington, Ky., breaking the 1:55 record set in 1938 by his granddad, Billy Direct...
...With his winning ways, the Butler inspires every upstart to an all-out effort to whip him. His third time out this season, when he burst in front at the start of the $25,000 Summer Festival Pace at Roosevelt, spectators wise in the ways of the wagon ponies strained to see the expected duel. Could the Butler's seven rivals box him in and keep him from winning? The Butler dropped back briefly at the ¼mile pole, then surged in front again. Four horses, as if working in relays, came up to challenge him, but the Butler...
Essays and Introductions, by William Butler Yeats. These are the thoughts of the early Yeats, the prophet of the Celtic Twilight. Here is the cult of beauty, the mystique of art as religion, and the strange notions that somehow fed the glories of his poetry...
...poet, Yeats was like an element in nature. In old age, he loved to tell the tale of an ancient sage (possibly William Butler Yeats) who was asked, "Who are your Masters?" And he replied, "The wind and the harlot, the virgin and the child, the lion and the eagle...