Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Travers, Saratoga race-goers will have two more weeks in which to enjoy the contest for riding honors between two crack jockeys, 19-year-old Coucci, contract rider for Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Meade who rides for Colonel Bradley. Feature stake races for 2-year-olds in the last two weeks of the meet will be the Sanford, the Grand Union Hotel and the Hopeful. In these are entered Boxthorn and Balladier who have this year helped to make Colonel Bradley the leading owner at the track. They will run against Mrs. Payne Whitney's Plat...
...experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy at West Point.* On one occasion I remember his telling us of his greatest feat as a midshipman when he plucked and painted an eagle as a cock and entered it in a cockfighting contest. Of course the eagle demolished the prize birds...
Last week NRA's compliance officer in Idaho quickly found an excuse for sidestepping a contest with Lawyer Borah over Baker Nestak's bread prices. Said he in his best face-saving style...
...Amherst, Mass., the Pomona Grange held a husband-calling contest. When the judges had awarded the prizes they found that Spinster Thelma Glazier had taken second place...
Shrilled Editor & Publisher: "The judge called it an endurance contest. We call it a survival of the ancient rack, the judge twisting the screws...