Word: handicap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lack of adequate publicity has been the greatest handicap of the Democratic Party in state and national politics. Special privilege, fostered by the Republican Party, largely controls the press of the country. The Democratic Party is committed to the policy of 'equal rights to all; special privileges to none...
...caracoling or sedately marching 20, there was one that the knowing jostlers chiefly desired to ogle-Quatrain, winner of the New Orleans Handicap and the Louisiana Derby, favored in the odds at 2 to 1. He was liked, not because he had been personally trained by his owner, Frederick Johnson, Manhattan turfman, but because Earl Sande, famed jockey, winner of the 1923 Derby on Zev, had offered Jockey Bruening $2,000 and 10% of the winnings for the privilege of riding him, and Bruening had refused. A. A. Kaiser's Captain Hal, who had turned in the best trial...
...leveret, from his mount at Saratoga, rose shouting to welcome him. Amid wilder shouting, he rode J. S. Ward's Worthmore, pulled him over the line to win by the width of a lead pencil from H. P. Whitney's Noah in the famed Paumonok Handicap...
...grass with their mashies, plus-four scorers who shyly admit that the only shot they are sure of is their fourth putt. Even of these, many get about a course with 72-odd clips, but only three play golf as every able man sensibly expects to. Last week, the handicap figures of Great Britain were issued. Three golfers were listed at scratch-Roger Wethered, Sir Ernest Holderness, Cyril J. H. Tolley. The first is lean, composed, frosty. His wrists are steel springs ; his swing is the crack of a quirt. The second, gloomy, nervous, plays with...
...they were empted by bride from the enemy yielded, and were caught. Several other boatloads of men sent out to bring in bootleggers also were tempted, yielded, but to date have not been caught. It is hoped that the well-known spirit of the force will over-come the handicap created by the defection of these weaker brethren, but strict surveillance has been commanded in order to prevent any more desertions...