Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Edmund O'Hara, independent candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, asked the Board of Tax Appeals to allow him income-tax deductions of $373,112. Reason: He had wagered $4,084,797 at his own race track* in 1935 and 1936, failed to recover all he bet, considered the losses as incurred in the conduct of his business...
...professional football season reached its halfway mark last week, Laundryman George Preston Marshall's Washington Redskins, defending champions of the National Football League, were out in front in the 1938 race-as expected. Major disappointment of the season was Plunger Art Rooney's Pittsburgh Pirates, who had won only two games, lost five...
...this year the luck of the Irish deserted Mr. Rooney. First he was unlucky at the race tracks. Then he was forced to postpone the Pirates' home games at Forbes Field (National League baseball park) because of the World Series plans of the baseball-playing Pirates. That deprived him of large gate receipts. Then the Whizzer, who had scored 122 points for the University of Colorado last year, was unable to whiz for Owner Rooney. Some observers, noting that White averaged only 2½ yards per try, accused his teammates of refusing to give him proper interference...
...years later, after he had been wintered outdoors in a poor pasture until he was so thin and rough as to be practically valueless, she was able to buy him for a song. She found him amazingly intelligent and adaptable, soon had him trained as a race horse, cow pony, hurdler, show horse, triple-bar exhibition jumper...
...horse no longer picked his feet high off the ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...