Word: whippets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Romans have thrilled to all manner of races-chariot races, horse races, automobile races, airplane races. But last week Romans saw their first whippet (dog) races. Six of the fleetest whippets raced were owned by the Contessa Dentice Di Frasso, once Miss Dorothy Taylor of Manhattan. Present were the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher...
Colonial at 8.20--"Thurston the Great Magician." The great sensation is the vanishing Whippet car and ten beautiful girls. That's just it,--the car vanished, and the ten little girls had to walk home...
...Willys-Overland, Whippet...
Willys-Knight, Whippet Buick...
These were: Miss Eleanor Post Close Hutton, granddaughter of the late Charles W. ("Postum") Post, Manhattan; Mrs. John North Willys (Whippet & Willys-Knight), Toledo, Ohio; Miss Mary Stevens Hammond (daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Spain), Bernardsville, N. J.; Miss Anne Gordon Colby, daughter of ex-Senator and Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, N. J.; Miss Anne Washington Ferine, lineal descendant of both the brother and half-brother of George Washington, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Ronald Randolph Fairfax, Roanoke, Va.; Miss Mary Seton Lindsay, Long Island, N. Y.; Mrs. John Marshall Slaton, wife of the onetime Governor of Georgia, Atlanta...