Word: horseshow
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...betting was averaging $250,000 a day. With little more than half the Hialeah racing season completed the State of Florida had already collected over $200,000 in taxes on betting and admissions-$50,000 more than last year. Crowds swarmed to Henry L. Doherty's Miami-Biltmore horseshow at Tropical Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera...
Agitation for Philippine independence reached such a pitch last week that President Hoover decided to send Patrick Jay Hurley, his Secretary of War, halfway round the globe to look into the islands' affairs. Obediently Secretary Hurley canceled a trip to Ireland to attend the Dublin Horseshow in August, arranged to sail with his wife and staff for Manila from Seattle July...
Undeniably industrious, able, ambitious, well-born,* clever, Robert Clarkson has attracted his quota of envy. He is often seen edging, a few minutes late, into his box at polo, at the horseshow, at the theatre, at prizefights. Recognizing him at these events, casual acquaintances wonder when he finds time to do his work. They would probably fail to identify his round gay face of a somewhat sophisticated cherub with the intent, solemn, face which, late at night has been seen bending over Robert Clarkson's desk...
...with which Madison Square Garden is normally equipped of evenings, the customers saw dirt. Soft dirt where hapless riders might tumble unhurt. In the middle of the dirt they saw suave gentlemen in cutaways (afternoons) and evening clothes; judges of horses. Also "Dutch" White, professional ringmaster of many a horseshow, resplendent in a scarlet & gold suit...
King-Emperor: "Said I, last week, at the London horseshow: 'I don't like to see women ride astride; the other way is much more graceful...