Word: racer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged into a ravine. Sharpest of all is the picture of Johnny's Grandfather Willingdon who came home to Johnny's house when he was an old man. He lived, embittered, eccentric and alone...
However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...
...Amsterdam and the Spaniards were dead in Mexico. Then a rainstorm cancelled the Sunday program. Before a capacity crowd next day Johnny Livingston, credited with winning more races than any other living pilot, added $2.250 to his two-year total of $56.000 by nosing out Art Davis, another crack racer, for the Baby Ruth Trophy. He whipped his flaming yellow Cessna around the 35-mile course at 183.7 m.p.h...
Among the outstanding Harvard entries who are expected to capture first places are captain N. P. Dodge, Jr. '33, 40-yard ace; J. B. White '34, half-miler; and J. M. Morse '34, versatile middle and long distance racer...
...easily infer that New York State's $250,000 served chiefly to entertain the hill-sliding Stevens brothers. But sliding down a hill is less a vocation for the Stevens family than a recreation from more vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac...