Word: peters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this skullduggery was waste motion. At the first turn, Doc Parshall, driving the favorite, Peter Astra (2:02 ¼), whizzed by the field on the outside, saw his opening and took it. From then on it was just a breeze. Peter Astra finished the first heat* three lengths in front of second-place Gauntlet. The second heat was even more one-sided. Starting from the pole position because of his victory in the first heat, Peter Astra won by five lengths, took the Hambletonian Stake in two straight heats...
Accepting the $21,000 first-place money, Peter Astra's owner, Dr. Lowry Miller Guilinger, a 70year-old horse-&-buggy doctor from the Ohio sticks, announced that he had just refused a foreign-syndicate offer of $37,500 for the bay colt he had bought as a yearling for $3,250. Outstanding two-year-old of 1938, Little Pete, who wears his forelock ribbon-braided like a pickaninny's, has been undefeated in five races this year (he has not lost a heat or once broken his stride, even in scoring). Winner of $47,000 so far this...
Chiefly responsible for Peter Astra's superiority is his trainer-driver, sandy-haired, peppery, 40-year-old Hugh Maynard Parshall, called Doc because he has a D. V. M. from a veterinary college. Winning "hoss" races is nothing new to Doc Parshall. A comparative youngster at a job where 20 years' experience is a major requirement, he has been the No. 1 U. S. harness-racing driver for eleven of the past twelve years, has won 763 first places since 1925 (including the Hambletonian twice), has never raced without a kitchen match in his mouth...
...have passed nearly all the famed social arbiters and artists of U. S. history. Rev. Thomas Skinner sat for Telegraph Inventor-Painter Samuel F. B. Morse; National Academy President Daniel Huntington painted Bishop Henry C. Potter; Alexander James did Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who inaugurated modern naval training; George Peter Alexander Healy produced a famous likeness of Mrs. August Belmont. While John Singer Sargent had a whack at several bigwigs of a later day, and contemporary painters filled in the gaps...
Down they drifted leisurely toward the southern front, ran into a Japanese advance, but were helped away just in time by efficient Rightist Newshawk Peter Fleming (News From Tartary). Despite twinges of conscience, they let themselves be carried over the mountains by coolies, wound up in the Shanghai International Settlement as guests of British Ambassador Kerr at Number One House...