Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bunching at the turn, widening along the fence, looping down past the grandstand they came, entries in last week's revival (in Chicago) of the American Derby, one-time "classic." A florid gentleman in a Panama looked benignly at the scene. He was Colonel E. R. Bradley of Lexington, Ky., owner of a brown horse named Boot to Boot, whose jockey, working his legs like a frog, drew under the wire, a winner by two lengths. The race put $89,000 in Colonel Bradley's pocket, was the fifth derby his stable has taken this year...
...many airplanes will the U. S. S. Lexington and Saratoga accommodate when completed...
...horsemen in the lobby of the Sellbach Hotel in Louisville had excitedly repeated the name of Bubbling Over for weeks, telling how this chestnut son of North Star III had smashed every fractional record up to a mile and an eighth when he won the Blue Grass stakes at Lexington by eight lengths. Eight lengths! That was the way Man-o'-War used...
...were elected to the offices of the University Band at a recent meeting of the members. Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River was chosen Director; Robert Thornion Smith '27, of Saco, Mc., was elected President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager; Charles Philip Engelhardt '28, Secretary; and Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librartan. At this same meeting, 27 men were elected to the Harvard University Band Club...
...full Business Committee is as follows: Chairman, William Sterling Youngman, of Brookline, sub-chairmen, Eugene Gilbert Kraetzer, of Lexington Barrett Whitney Stevens, of New York City, and George Lane Winlock, of New York City; board members, Frederick Irving Chase, of Brookline, Herbert Fields, of Huntington, W. Va, Lawrence Trevor Grimm, of Los Angeles, Cal., Foster Knight, of Dedham, Jack Burton Nason, of Erie, Pa., Henry Harrison Proctor, of Boston, Joseph Earle Stevens Jr., of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Walter Sheldon, Tower Jr., of Maplewood, N. F., John Garnett Whitham Jr., Lawrence, George Leon Weil Jr., of New York City...