Word: tobogganned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physicians she sent to tend him realized it when the Spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association opened at flowery Belmont Park four days later.* Flecked by tragedy, Mrs. Sloane's colors continued their phenomenal gallop from prize to prize. In the 41st running of the Toboggan Handicap, Belmont's opener, Mrs. Sloane's favorite horse, Okapi, was entered. Mack Garner was up -"Colonel" Mack Garner since he had won the Kentucky Derby on Cavalcade two weeks before. Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best...
...triumphs in the Arlington Classic and Travers Stakes last year, Mrs. Sloane's horses have won 19 important stakes, six of this year's big races: Florida Derby with Time Clock, Chesapeake Stakes and Kentucky Derby with Cavalcade, Wood Memorial and Preakness with High Quest, Toboggan with Okapi. Winnings for 1933-34: $232,605. This more than covers Mrs. Sloane's racing expenses, since she maintains no breeding farm, winters her horses in public quarters at Columbia...
...After a three-week toboggan the stockmarket pulled up short last week, rose moderately. Volume of transactions, however, continued to slide down to new low records. In a short Saturday session only 249,300 shares changed hands-lowest figure since July 1932. Even the Toronto market was more active. Having nothing better to do, a Wall Street statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat...
...midget barber shop. He will have been sufficiently aghast at the monstrosities in C. C. Pyle's and Robert Ripley's "Odditorium," sufficiently thrilled by the dizzying Sky Ride. He will have banged his bones on the breath-taking Cyclone Safety Coaster and the Flying Turns, a toboggan which makes its twists through semicylindrical tunnels. He surely will have wearied his feet after viewing the Pantheon of the War and the similar Battle of Gettysburg cycloramas. In short, the visitor will be ready either for bed or for a place to sit down with a glass of beer...
...organization could offer in the way of jobless relief. Anxiously discussed was the probability that a Federal dole would have serious Congressional backing. Declared Mr. Strawn as he emerged: "It would be deplorable if this country ever voted a dole. When we do that, we've hit the toboggan as a nation...