Word: goldsmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irreverent, as aristocratic societies are; it was libertine in word, but preserved the trite, conventional and charming copybook morality of the 18th Century in action. When he died, Shaw was really a hundred years older than his admitted age, as sweet and prim and gentle as anyone out of Goldsmith...
...father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...
...winner's share of the purse was small: $3,750. But to Owner Verhurst and Proximity it was a big one. The money brought Proximity's race earnings to $208,629, breaking the alltime trotting record of $206,462, set by Goldsmith Maid in 1877.* Proximity's time: 2:05 2/5, bettering the old track record...
...Though Goldsmith Maid also earned some $150,000 in exhibitions...
Owners Ralph and Gordon Verhurst were just as impressed by Proximity's total earnings to date: $190,579.67, a close trotting distance from the record of $206,462.50 set by Goldsmith Maid* before the turn of the century...