Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season: the prizes he won amounted to $105,005 and his owner, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, decided to enter him in the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap. An odds-on favorite, Sun Beau was badly beaten by Robert M. Eastman's seven-year-old bay gelding, Mike Hall...
Mike Hall was one of the starters in the Arlington Handicap last week, feature race of the last day of Chicago's principal summer race meeting. He finished fourth. First by three lengths was six-year-old Sun Beau. The winner's prize, $27,300, added to his previous winnings, made him the greatest money horse in the history of the U. S. turf, with $330,044 compared to the $328,165* which Gallant Fox had won when he was retired last autumn. A U. S. horse who has won more than Sun Beau: Goldsmith Maid, trotting mare...
...officials have long felt that the profusion of foreigners in Fokker personnel was a handicap in seeking U. S. Government contracts. Last fortnight Fokker renewed his own application for citizenship papers...
Later he met Paul Whiteman, sang with his orchestra on the Leviathan. When not singing he blew into a French horn that had no notes. He became a popular night club entertainer in Manhattan, then in London where his pudgy, unimpressive physique was an even less noticeable handicap than it had been in the U. S. Bored with night clubs, he made three talking pictures which attracted scant notice, met and married Barbara Bennett, went to Hollywood where he accomplished nothing except learning to ride a horse...
...apprehension. Other proposals included an increase in the inheritance tax, and revival of the old gift and automobile sales taxes. Opposed as ever to tax legislation at the next session was President Hoover who was politician enough to know that any such increase would be a back-breaking handicap for him in his 1932 campaign for reelection. He continued to hope, half out loud, for Better Times as the surest form of fiscal relief...