Word: race
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...
...platform which promises to slow down the rate of change but to keep some of the more important recent reforms-i.e., the agrarian program, nationalization of oil, etc. Normally an opposition nominee has about as much chance in a Mexican election as a dray horse in a sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued...
...want it to be what the World Series is to baseball, what the Rose Bowl is to football." Thus chirped 25-year-old Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in the fall of 1937, when he invited four of the best race horses of that year to compete in an entry-free, post-season race at Pimlico...
Seasoned turfmen smiled tolerantly. They knew Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was rich (rumor put his fortune at $20,000,000), was passionately fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...