Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks with fringed awnings, four-in-hands, victorias, still the choice of many a Saratoga horse-lover...
Credit for the translation is due Dorothy Thompson, for the drawings to Constantin Aladjalov. The book is dedicated to Sinclair Lewis, "that good American...
...Those privately owned by individuals (about 150 in the U. S. Examples: William F. Kenny's St. Nicholas, Edward Beale McLean's Enquirer, Harry Ford Sinclair's St. Claire...
Birthday. Harry Ford Sinclair, 53, oil tycoon; in the District jail, Washington...
...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...