Word: three-year-old
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...president of Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. By a provision of Jay Gould's will none of his children could marry without the consent of the trustees of his estate. She got the consent. She and her husband, who survives her, had no children, but they adopted a three-year-old waif, who was found on the steps of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1914. Later they adopted two daughters of her brother Frank...
Fortnight ago three-year-old Donald Richardson left Kansas City General Hospital after being cured of Purpura hemorrhagica (capillary bleeding) by injections of cottonmouth venom. The Kansas City Journal-Post related in newsworthy detail how the poison thickened the blood and stopped seepage through the ruptured vessels. The Star merely stated that Donald had been cured by injections of "venom," left it up to readers to guess whether the venom came from Cleopatra's asp or a chemist's test tube...
John L. Lewis and 518 other delegates to a constitutional convention assembled in Pittsburgh to bury the three-year-old Committee for Industrial Organization...
...undefeated in eight starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes), was champion of the three-year-olds and the darling of the tracks because of his spectacular habit of getting in front at the start and staying there. Even-tempered, hardy Seabiscuit, a year older and graduated from the three-year-old class into the more difficult handicap class, was champion of his division (eleven victories in 15 starts), was the No. 1 money winner of the year ($168,580), and had a sentimental following because he asked no favors, ran under any weight on any track against...
...Admiral (his son) had been brought up like Little Lord Fauntleroy, while Seabiscuit (his grandson) had been treated like a fairy-book stepchild-sent out as a breadwinner in 35 overnight races and minor stakes when he was only two years old. As a three-year-old he was entered in a claiming race for $6,000, but no one wanted the homely little son of Hard Tack...