Word: racetracks
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...unintelligibility of Stepin Fetchit, who is too lazy to use words. Born Lincoln Perry in Key West, Fla., in 1902, Stepin Fetchit went to divinity school. When after two years he learned that it would take two more to finish the course, he resigned. Discharged for incompetence as a racetrack tout, he adopted the name of his favorite horse (Step and Fetch It) and decided to try acting...
...each. (In those years the red-front shops of the Brothers Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific literally sold nothing but tea, coffee and baking powder.) By 1890 Jim Butler was wealthy enough to buy his first string of horses. Ten years later he had built his own racetrack, the Empire City, at Yonkers. By 1929 he was reputed to be worth...
...Butler was thrifty. When the racetrack fence needed painting, he painted it on the outside only. When he drove down to Yonkers to attend a race, his squire rode in a disreputable old Ford. For years a band at the racetrack struck up "Wearin' of the Green" whenever a Butler horse won. When Depression affected the track, the band was dispensed with. And it was a Butler rule to sell any horse which did not make money. Next to horses and groceries, Jim Butler devoted himself to Catholic charities, founded a Catholic girls' school at Tarrytown...
...some 15 years Tod Sloan has been broke. His third wife and daughter Anna, 10, have long been cared for by Mrs. J. P. Cudahy of the packing family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...
Corporative State. Twelve days ago in the midst of the Siege of Vienna celebration, Chancellor Dollfuss gave warning that the old Austrian Democracy was completely dead. Orating at Vienna's huge racetrack, he said...