Word: racetrack
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Nottingham's famed Goose Fair, a combination of autumn market, circus and racetrack, left the happiest childhood impression on Laura, had much to do with her delighted discovery of circus subjects soon after the War. She traveled with circuses, became the firm friend of England's late great clown, Whimsical Walker, and a dappled grey circus horse named Hassan, both of whom she repeatedly painted. Of the circus she says: "I love the freedom of it all. . . . The flapping of canvas is like the sound of gunshot- there's nothing in the world to compare with...
...creating a $110,000,000 business in the midst of Depression. Born at Union City, Mich, to an improvident Methodist minister, he made his first profits picking berries, spraying vegetables, digging ditches, selling clothes. Once he rode an ostrich in a race against a horse at a Grand Rapids racetrack. After college and law school at Boulder, Colo., he turned up in Manhattan as a law clerk in the famed firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. One day he prepared a contract on short notice for Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell when that dynamic utilitarian was president of Electric Bond & Share. Mr. Mitchell...
...sleepy country town of 13,000; the next, a buzzing metropolis of 45,000. Saratoga natives, accustomed to this change which occurs annually with the opening, for the month of August, of the oldest and most glamorous U. S. racetrack, did not allow themselves to become perturbed by it last week. Not so the sparrows which nest in the elm trees that shake like huge dark fans over Saratoga's Broadway. Disturbed by lights that burned all night, roused by bookmakers who on the street below kept up a shrill chatter until long after midnight, the birds chattered also...
Before sunrise on the racetrack a mile away dockers glanced at stopwatches in their hands while horses, unnumbered and ridden by exercise boys or jockeys in sweat shirts, galloped through a soft summer mist. Events of the week...
...health resort. In 1825 John Clarke, who started the first soda fountain in Manhattan, began to bottle and sell carbonated water from Saratoga. By 1883 Saratoga hotels had a capacity of 12,500, sheltered 100,000 costive, gouty, giddy visitors a summer season. To entertain the visitors the Saratoga racetrack was built and gambling establishments were opened. To contain a Saratoga season's clothing and finery the huge Saratoga trunk was invented...