Word: freelander
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...could not land in time for the game. Philosophically the passengers turned to Hochheimer wine. An electrician repaired the radio, wrecked the night before by a jealous accordion-player. Doubly disappointed was Walter J. Salmon who had elected to go to the game rather than watch his horse, Dr. Freeland, run in the $25,000 Maryland handicap at Bowie; and Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts, ardent Yaleman of Montclair, N. J. who had not missed a Yale-Harvard game in 30 years; and J. Murray Mitchell who was to have been host to a large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge...
...took up the practice of law. In 1889 he married Elinor C. McClements of Chicago, who before her death in 1917 gave him one daughter, Genevieve Arlisle (wife of Capt. Emmet C. Gudger, U. S. N.). When Walsh and wife migrated West, he sought clients among the freeland settlers, first in Redfield, S. Dak., then in the copper country around Helena, Mont., where he established a reputation handling suits against mining companies. In 1906 he was defeated for the House of Representatives, but his law fame grew. With Montana's onetime Attorney General, he formed the locally potent firm...
...clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...
Jimmy Walker had a box but Manhattan had a police parade so Jimmy stayed at home. Walter J. Salmon, whose Dr. Freeland won the Preakness, was there and so was Publisher Paul Block, who arrived in a private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained...
...Preakness is Maryland's greatest race, traditional preliminary for the Derby at Churchill Downs, Ky., greatest U. S. race. But Owner Salmon announced that Dr. Freeland would not run in the Derby this weekend...