Word: galahading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today we honor youth, beautiful youth, consecrated youth, ideal youth, youth that won our admiration and deepest love," said Dr. William Mann Irvine, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, at Mercersburg, Pa. "Like Sir Galahad, his moral strength was ideal because it was clean. . . . The mantle of nobility was upon him." The headmaster's wife drew back a U. S. flag revealing a portrait of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Mrs. Coolidge sat in the audience. Later, the class of 1925, classmates of her dead son, presented her with a watch...
Frank O'Neill, "veteran of 20 years of the American, British and French turf," rode Sir Galahad...
...owner of Sir Galahad is Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, British subject, godson of Jefferson Davis. Said he after the race: "I don't want to be one of those 'I told you so' gentlemen. I told you Sir Galahad would win; there...
Next day friends of Epinard proposed a "revenge race" for 500,000 francs. Jefferson Davis Cohn was indignant. Said he: "This is absolute bumptiousness! I think Sir Galahad will not run again for three months. I have had him in training since Jan. 1 and he has had five races during that time. I cannot train such a nervous horse for any longer period of time...
...Then I'll bet 40 francs on Sir Galahad...