Word: zev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated In Memoriam by a nostril in the most thrilling match race of all time. Today, Zev is eating grass on Mr. Sinclair's farm in New Jersey...
...Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with his Rancocas stables (including World's Champion Horse Zev) and to be offered (so the story goes)' the throne of Albania?fleshy but firm, quiet but quick-eyed, Harry P. Sinclair sat erect and whispered incessantly with his counsel...
Died. Colonel James William Zevely, 65, famed attorney, at his home in East Hampton, L. I., of pernicious anemia. Despite his great abilities as a lawyer, he was perhaps best known to the U. S. public as "the man after whom Harry F. Sinclair named the famous racehorse Zev...
...ogle-Quatrain, winner of the New Orleans Handicap and the Louisiana Derby, favored in the odds at 2 to 1. He was liked, not because he had been personally trained by his owner, Frederick Johnson, Manhattan turfman, but because Earl Sande, famed jockey, winner of the 1923 Derby on Zev, had offered Jockey Bruening $2,000 and 10% of the winnings for the privilege of riding him, and Bruening had refused. A. A. Kaiser's Captain Hal, who had turned in the best trial times, and Kentucky Cardinal, also impressive in trial, were popular. Sande was up on Flying...
Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...