Word: race-track
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...with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after a misunderstanding with his confreres, his mistress inherits the horse, winters him on the farm where he was bred, enters him in the Kentucky Derby. Gamblers try to fix this race also; but Tommy Boy's owner has a stable boy cut a notch in the reins so that, when the jockey tries to hold him back, Tommy Boy breaks the reins, wins the race. Most race-track pictures sentimentalize both horses and humans even more than this one, which...
...Heaven, the people have to get past the Devil. The Devil wears red trousers and horns, but it is easy to see what he really is. He is a sporting blood, a race-track Satan, a ginmill Beelzebub; he has a bottle of red-eye liquor in his hand and is not stingy with his drinks. The Wayworn Traveler, the Pilgrim of Faith, the Troubled Soul, the Poor Blind Girl, the Pilgrim of Hope, the Widow and her Children and the Bedridden Woman all get past him safely. Walking up to St. Peter's throne, they sing "Nobody Knows...
...stewards of Arlington Park race-track near Chicago having disqualified his horse Princess Camelia for fouling three other horses in a race last week, Joseph Leiter used what the stewards called "intemperate language and con-duct." They fined him $250, suspended him from the track...
Contrary to most exhibitions of the work of Degas, emphasis has been laid not on his studies of the ballet and of the race-track, but upon his endeavors in the line of portraiture. Another feature of the show is a large unfinished canvas, "Woman at the Bath", which has been lent by an anonymous collector, and is on exhibition for the first time...
...winning the unimportant ones, of yielding in big events to the inspired rallies of inferior players. Two weeks ago he broke his custom of staying in Florida all winter by going to Agua Caliente, Mexico. The men who have built hotels, casinos and a race-track there to attract the money formerly spent at Tia Juana, a few miles away, tempted him and other famed players by making the prizes of their first tournament bigger than those of any other tournament in the world...