Word: siring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most interesting man to watch among the enemy tomorrow is none other than the running back son of the Bruin Coach, little McLaughry, Jr. Austen Lake has called him "a lean, strapping 197-pounder with the same angular put-together and legginess of his sire, though swarthier in complexion and a brunet in place of his dad's blondness." That's quite a mouthful, but then this boy will have to be good, for the Bear ends are only fair, and the rest of the Bear line is going to have quite an afternoon tomorrow
...Marie Antoinette, MGM furnishes its fussiest star with her first role since Romeo and Juliet and maintains its position as the industry's supreme spendthrift. The picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning...
...colts, swung his binoculars above his head in circles, pumped the hand of Jockey Arcaro again & again. Not only had Owner Woolf won the $47,000 first-place money and a $5,000 gold cup, but he had bet heavily and forehandedly on his Missouri colt-whose sire he had picked up for $500. Placing substantial wagers in the winter books (as high as 20-to-1) and in the parimutuels at Churchill Downs as well. Owner Woolf was reported to have cleaned up $150,000-the biggest killing since the days when Colonel Edward R. Bradley, four-time Derby...
...history of U. S. racing when he was retired to the stud of his owner, Samuel 13. Riddle, in 1921. In the 14 years since his first foals became of racing age (1924), Big Red's progeny have won more money than the sons & daughters of any other sire† now living ($2,426,446) and he has become the most famed stallion standing...
...signed up for the movies. The 20,000 spectators, most of whom had come primarily to see War Admiral in his first big race as a four-year-old, were not disappointed. Oldsters for a moment thought they were watching Big Red, as War Admiral, imitating his famed sire, delayed the race by his shameful behavior at the starting gate, then flashed to the front in the first furlong and stayed there. Breezing down the stretch, War Admiral won as easily as everyone expected. First-prize of $49,550 brought War Admiral's lifetime winnings to $231,625-some...