Word: hazarding
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...planes in the early afternoon was due in part, according to some pilots, to the strong wind on the sharp turn of the home pylon on the three-and-one-half mile course. The women asked to be allowed to fly the five-mile course to avoid the hazard. There was no chance to fly this course before the race- and anyone who races knows how difficult it is to find pylons from a low altitude...
...Marble House," famed old Newport mansion of Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, was bought by Frederick Henry-Prince, Boston banker, railroad tycoon, sportsman, owner of the racing yacht Weetamoe. "Marble House" was built in 1892, at a reputed cost of $8,000,000, as a birthday gift to Mrs. Belmont by her husband, the late William Kissam Vanderbilt, three years before she divorced him. It has been boarded up since...
...capital on the one hand, superabundance of idle labor on the other, with every appearance that the dilemma, once more, cannot be solved without a radical change of regime. "But does this mean that the revolution is for tomorrow? We have believed that too often in the past to hazard such a prediction again...
...Diegel and Cox had finished with higher scores than his. But Cruickshank and Sarazen were still out on the course. Cruickshank reached the turn in 33 and Sarazen in 32. Cruickshank needed a 68 for the round to tie and Sarazen needed 69. They were playing against the worst hazard in golf, a carded score, and it looked as though a thunderstorm would blow over from Long Island Sound before they finished the last nine holes...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, onetime wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt, in Paris, following a para lytic stroke; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, in New Haven, Conn., following removal of fibroid tumor; King Camp Gillette, 77, razor tycoon, in Los Angeles...