Word: races
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Town's Woman. There is a real horse-race on the treadmill which once played so important a part in Ben Hur; there is an aviator for women who are still pining over Col. Lindbergh; there is a mean old bond-dealer, and a self-sacrificing heroine, and a waitress in trouble; there is enough plot for six plays; there are two intermissions and, at long last, a final curtain. But it all looks like another misfortune for the new Craig Theatre...
...compendium of whaledom. But far more than these it offers so excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern...
...sunshine a couple of rifle shots across the U. S. border. The track, where each spring more than $98,250 is posted for one horserace, is so near California that tourists park Fords and Cadillacs on the U. S. side to avoid the nuisance of search (for liquor) when race day is done. A signpost says AL HIPPODROMO and a long bar under the grandstand dispenses beer and spirits. Otherwise the racetrack and its patrons are markedly Americano...
...Coffroth Handicap climaxes 100 days of racing, attracting horses from famed Eastern and Southern stables, but odd things happen to horses, and many prime jockies do not ride there. Touts peddling tips are numerous and all offer the gambling tourist a sure thing on every race. Yet even touts in their surpassing wisdom disappear mysteriously toward the paddock between races to find "which ones are trying...
Behind the bars of Tiajuana stand the remnants of a disappearing race-the U.S. bartender. Many a man among them will tell heart-breaking tales of better days when he served drinks at the Waldorf in Manhattan, at Boston's Parker House or at Coffee Dan's in San Francisco. Their skill confirms their stories and strong men weep gently into their old-fashioned whiskey cocktails to think such souls are passing...