Word: studs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart...
Most racehorses celebrate the same birthday-Jan. 1, when, in the U. S. stud book, all horses foaled before the preceding July 1 become a year older. Not so a racehorse like Man o' War whose birthday falls on March 29. Last week's, at Lexington, Ky., was his 17th...
...retired in 1920, after winning 20 of his 21 races, and $249,465 in prize money. Since then he has sired 131 colts; for his stud services his owner Samuel D. Riddle gets $5,000. Man o' War's offspring have won more than $1,800,000. As to their character, horsemen differ. Some of them are considered to inherit the cantankerous, gloomy disposition of their father while racing. Man o' War, still called "Big Red" by stable boys, was a glutton and had to wear a muzzle between meals to prevent him from swallowing stones, sticks...
Birthdays. DeWolf Hopper, 76; Dr. Francis Horace Vizetelly, lexicographer, 70; Governor Herbert Lehman of New York, 56; Man o' War, famed race and stud horse...
...Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion stud of the world, a horse that Morrison says he paid $40,000 for and refused...