Word: two-year-old
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...several minutes before the dumfounded onlookers recovered their voices. Few had given Gallahadion even an outside chance to finish second or third. He was a colt who had never finished better than fourth as a two-year-old and had lost more races than he had won at Santa Anita last winter. Only four days before, in a mile race over the same track and with the same jockeys, Bimelech had beaten Gallahadion by almost three lengths. His owner, Chocolate Heiress Ethel Mars, decided not to go from Chicago to Louisville for the Derby, although her trainer, Roy Waldron...
...winter, racing fans have been buzzing about Bimelech. Those who saw him race last year could not forget the effortless ease with which he floated in front of his contemporaries, winning all six of his starts-including all three two-year-old classics, Hopeful Stakes, Belmont Futurity and Pimlico Futurity. In the Kentucky Derby future books, more than 50% of the money wagered went on Bimelech's nose...
...Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering. Many of them were painted and powdered and in a few cases were wearing high-heeled shoes.";Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church of his own so he could divorce Catherine of Aragon to marry Anne Boleyn. The rush was accounted for by a combination of wartime psychology and two-year-old liberalization...
...Nine years ago in Bradford, Pa., an engineer named C. G. ("Center of Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...
...Lincoln's Birthday the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce brought New Yorkers the voice of old Poet Markham, on a two-year-old recording, reciting Lincoln, the Man of the People. As a further treat it presented nine Markham poems about Lincoln, which Markham wrote in 1925, never before published or broadcast. On the air they were read by Virgil Markham, the poet's fictioneer...