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...December, when wintry winds whistle up the gorge at Harpers Ferry and the temperature nears zero, the bush-league horse-racing circuit shivers to a halt at Charles Town, W. Va. It is the end of the line for gyp (short for gypsy) horsemen and their broken-down nags. Hibernating in the stalls there, the gyps nail up blankets and newspapers to keep out the cold. The swank comforts of Hialeah and Santa Anita are not for them. But this year, for the first time, the gyps went south for the winter. A race track, refurbished lor them, opened...
...Crimson, as the story said) out of the red. When he went home to San Francisco (the story tactfully ignored his expulsion from Harvard*), his father offered him "everything from the fabulous Homestake Mine to the baronial Mexican ranch." No, said Willie, all he wanted was the broken-down (circ. 5,000) Examiner, which Senator George Hearst had taken in on a $100,000 bad debt...
...things that people had been putting up with and not liking-the block-selling of Pullman space (by which big companies often tied up space they did not use), old-fashioned sleeping cars ("rolling tenements"). He had pulled his roads out of the venerable Association of American Railroads ("that broken-down lobby") and this month will set up his own railroad association...
...Spirits. Madame Blavatsky began life as an adventuress. Born (1831) in the Ukraine of an aristocratic Russian family, she was married at 16 to General Nicephore Blavatsky, deserted him three months later to spend the next 25 years traipsing through European third-class hotels with a broken-down singer. For a while, she operated a shady spiritualist "society" in Cairo. In 1873, at the age of 41, she decided to try the New World...
...only completely satisfactory performances are turned in by Erncst Truex as a broken-down old man whose dream of being a poet buoys him up in the face of financial ruin and contempt from his family, and by a charming little girl named Ann Jackson in the role of his daughter...