Word: gimcracks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Till his 65th year, Philadelphia Author John T. McIntyre wrote gimcrack historical novels and Broadway melodramas. Then he staked a claim on Philadelphia's underworld and immediately struck pay dirt. The minor crooks, racketeers, pickpockets, cardsharps, pimps, stools, finks of Steps Going Down (1936) and Ferment (1937) were as tough as shoe leather, as American as a tabloid. In Signing Off, however, Author McIntyre's claim begins to look as if it were rapidly being worked...
...Garner took to the whip. Down the stretch he thundered on Cavalcade, past Discovery one length, two lengths. Three lengths ahead, he eased up as he flashed under the wire a winner. Discovery placed. Agrarian took the show. Over the wires in the press coop, high in the old gimcrack stands, Cavalcade's statistics flashed out to the world. His time for the 1¼ mi. was 2104 flat, no derby record. He was the second English-bred horse to win the race, having been imported in utero when Hastily was in foal to Lancegaye. Only other imported winner...
Derby Day this year finds Churchill Downs physically about the same. The vast old gimcrack wooden stands have had a touch of paint and a little repair has been done on the fences which separate Louisville's most noted establishment from the mean little houses of one of its least attractive sections. In tune with the times, a café and bar have been added; admission prices are down 33⅓% to 50%. But for the first time since 1930, a sell-out is forecast for the Derby. Vice President & Mrs. Garner from horsy Texas and NRAdministrator Johnson, oldtime...
...Gimcrack...
...Akron, O., Marvin Shearer, 70, surveyed with pride a timepiece he had completed after ten years. Big as a horse-van, more ornate than a cathedral altar, the monstrous gimcrack every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...