Word: zev
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jones makes a habit of sending fat horses to the post. So did Hildreth; old-timers still remember that his Zev was "fat as a pig" the day he won the 1923 Kentucky Derby. Hildreth's superstitious aversion to cameras and black cats is something that Jones has no time for, but he shares his predecessor's ability to glance at a horse and tell how it feels. On the way to the track for a morning workout, he frequently flabbergasts an exercise boy, as Hildreth used to, by saying "Take that filly back to the barn...
...years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...