Word: frankfort
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Though Kentuckians like to bet on horses from his big Idle Hour Farm which spreads out on both sides of the Frankfort Pike near Lexington, Col. Bradley is no native Kentuckian. He was born in Bradford, Pa., and worked in its steel mills till he was old enough to go out West and become a cowpuncher. After a few years of that he went to Chicago and made money with a hotel. Presently he was rich enough to spend his winters in Palm Beach, where he started a gambling casino. How much "Bradley's," smartest gaming place...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born at Frankfort-On-Main in 1749, the son of a rich lawyer and the grandson of a tailor turned innkeeper. Educated in the arts, sciences and law, Goethe's poetical and practical career took imposing form in 1775, when, aged 26, he settled down in Weimar to spend the rest of his life at the court of his friend, Grand Duke Karl August. From then on as poet, statesman and a genius of widest interests 'Goethe permitted his personality to expand majestically. He crowned his career by writing Faust, a poem into which...
...Mississippi mob took its cue from similar action earlier this month in Kentucky where a rowdy throng invaded Governor Laffoon's home at Frankfort in protest against a 1% sales tax passed by the House (TIME, March 14). Last week the Kentucky levy died when the General Assembly ended its session without Senate action...
...while Garibaldi defended the Janiculum and Manin led Venice to starving martyrdom, Germany talked and blustered and Bismarck had his way. Perhaps in no other gathering in the history of the world would the Vagabond have been so at home as at the National Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage his yearning by letting Professor Fay burnish the plates of memory when...
...Frankfort the Kentucky General Assembly petitioned President Hoover to free Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and the two naval enlisted men, held at Honolulu, pending trial for the murder of an Hawaiian who allegedly raped Mrs. Massie (TIME...