Word: chestnut
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...world's major tennis championships. Last week the group was preparing to descend on Forest Hills, N. Y. for the last major event of the year, the 54th U. S. Singles Championship. Meanwhile the long series of preliminaries to that tournament were being brought to an end at Chestnut Hill, Mass. and South Orange...
...bookmakers, many of whom had arrived the night before on the "Cavanagh Special" (named for famed Ringmaster John G. Cavanagh), made Postage Due the favorite. The horse Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's trainer, Tom Healey, predicts will be better than Equipoise, a big chestnut colt named Red Rain, they dismissed contemptuously at 6-to-1. After the Mash the yapping of bookmakers that kept Saratoga's sparrows awake was mostly about Red Rain. Left at the post and running a miserable last, eight lengths behind the field at the half-mile post, he had suddenly come to life running...
...Cavalcade every time they met, he won consistently on other occasions, piled up $49,555 in prizes which made him the fifth biggest winner of 1934. This year, while Cavalcade has been in his stall, harassed by lameness, coughs and everything except a nervous breakdown, Discovery, a long-striding chestnut colt, has been making himself the outstanding handicap racehorse on the U. S. turf...
Notable are the production sequences in the Paris cafe, with Miss Ellis made up successively as a schoolmistress, a cocotte and a chestnut seller, singing Paris in Spring. There is also a turntable upheld by living statuary on which she sings something about jealousy. Cinemagoers with sharp eyes and good memories may look twice at the cafe's taxi-starter: Jack Mulhall, star of silent days...
...sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director, retired from active business some years ago as did jovial, sandy-haired Frederic H. Strawbridge who, resplendent in a tan bowler and greatcoat, cheeks pink as pippins, is often seen riding at Chestnut Hill high on the seat of his tallyho...