Word: jockey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...host, Albert Davis Lasker, onetime (1921-23) chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, took him to the Jockey Club races. As everyone knows, Indian-blooded Mr. Curtis used to be a jockey himself. He has an eye for fast horses the way some men have an eye for quick stocks. After the heat of the day it was cooling to return to Mr. Lasker's low, rambling white stucco villa (with rose tile roof) and listen to the Atlantic tapping on the sandy front lawn. Next door, like a Miamese twin, was the house of John D. Hertz...
...left the ground Maguelonne, a riderless French mare, barged against him. He cleared the obstacle but the evenness of his jump had been broken and he crashed. Tipperary Tim, 100 to 1, the only other mounted horse to survive, came on to win. Little Tommy Cullinan, Billy's jockey, rose, shook himself, remounted and rode on to finish second. Billy Barton has been in England since autumn waiting for March 22. A few weeks ago, after frosts that kept the turf hardened, he was taken to Tenby, on the sheltered southern coast of Wales, to limber...
Florenz Ziegfeld, who glorifies girls; H. C. ("Bud") Fisher, who long has had a "ghost" cartoonist; James M. Cox, whom Harding buried; Scarf ace Al Capone, shadow of Chicago in Florida's sunshine; Pony McAtee, a jockey; Tris Speaker, whose name is on small boys baseball bats; Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Chadbourne, who had come from New York by special train with guests; Johnny Farrell, national open golf champion; Caleb Bragg, who drives automobiles at breakneck speed...
...weekly series of races was run. The season began with 20 invited guests and ended with scores of interlopers. A blackamoor in jockey silks doled out refreshments. There were printed racing sheets, from Mr. Geddes' own press. A bugle sounded before each start. Comic relief was provided by steeplechase events in which obstacles were placed on the course to cause realistic jumps and falls. In all there were 800 horses, owned in groups or "stables" by 100 people, among them Dramacritic Alexander Woollcott, Colyumist Heywood Broun, Artist Peter Arno, Ziegfeld Ballerina Claire Luce...
...achieve a sewer pipe monopoly in Queens Borough. In 1917 specifications were doctored to require the kind of pipe that only Mr. Phillips could sell. From 1917 to 1927 Mr. Phillips' prices were exorbitant. Lawyer Buckner dramatically displayed them on a chart. Mr. Connolly had the power to jockey contracts. He seemed to have awarded them as he wished. He mysteriously acquired thousands of dollars. Mr. Connolly, said many, looked like material for a long-time jailbird...