Word: wearin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler was thrifty. When the racetrack fence needed painting, he painted it on the outside only. When he drove down to Yonkers to attend a race, his squire rode in a disreputable old Ford. For years a band at the racetrack struck up "Wearin' of the Green" whenever a Butler horse won. When Depression affected the track, the band was dispensed with. And it was a Butler rule to sell any horse which did not make money. Next to horses and groceries, Jim Butler devoted himself to Catholic charities, founded a Catholic girls' school at Tarrytown...