Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Getting his goat" originated on the turf. Race horses, high-strung, feel more at ease if constantly attended by a fellow animal. A cheap, tractable animal, easy to feed, taking up small room in a stall, is the goat. Many a racehorse, especially in England, has had a goat for stall-mate. Turf crooks long ago found that few things will upset a horse more than to ''get his goat" (take it away) the night before the race...
...meets the diplomat. The picture has all the proper- ties of its predecessor, but lacks the popular sentimentality. Worst shot: Rod La Rocque as the diplomat in a golf sweater which might better have been used to flag an airplane. The Hottentot (Warner Vitaphone). The Hottentot is a terrifying racing steed. He belongs to a horsey Eastern family, needs a rider in the coming steeplechase. From California comes Edward Everett Horton to visit. He loves the daughter of the house, Patsy Ruth Miller, who can love only horsey men. Timid, sedentary, Horton is no jockey, but a mutual friend tells...
...Arabs, recovering loot seized in the riots, massacres and town-burnings of last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would be common murder, not glorious and justifiable vengeance taken upon a rival race and creed...
...Many a race between shadowy contraband-carrying rumrunners and swift, searchlight playing patrol boats has been run on the narrow Detroit river. Last week 400,000 persons lined the river's edge to watch millionaires race millionaires...
Most important of the contests was the race for the Harmsworth (British International) trophy, held since 1920 by wiry, grey-haired Garfield ("Gar") Wood, "The Silver Fox." Piloting his new Miss America VIII he won the first heat, established a non-straightaway record...