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...textbook engraving of Christopher Columbus discovering America would excite no special curiosity in most small girls, Victorian or modern. But one blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Philadelphia child gazed at it during the late 1860'sand wondered. What about those red Indians peeping through the forest at the white man? What about their souls...
...Fugitive, Thomas W. Durant's six-year-old chestnut gelding, cleverly ridden by Randolph Duffey: the 4th running of the Meadow Brook Cup steeplechase; when Alligator, coming up fast, fell and unseated his jockey at the next to last fence; at Old Westbury...
...blistering morning last week some 1,000 employes of the Chevy Chase and Chestnut Farms dairies, their wives, children and sweethearts crowded gaily aboard the steamer Charles Macalester and set off down the Potomac from Washington for an outing. Soon after noon they went ashore at Marshall Hall, ate a luncheon of ham and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, milk, tea, watermelon, ice cream & cake. Two hours later a child collapsed. Parents warned their children to keep out of the sun. Then men & women began to feel ill. Directors of the picnic mustered most of them aboard the steamer...
...Miss Purcell being kittenish when the Chocolate Soldier invades her bedroom, agreeable as Miss Purcell certainly is, or wants to hear her beat her chest and scream "I-hate-you-I-hate-you!" And who is amused by Alexius, the type of the "Miles Gloriosus" who was a theatrical chestnut in Roman times? As for the Bulgarian army, their horseplay suggests the Pirates of Penzance on an off day; they succeed in being about as funny as a squad of filling-station men saying "Check your...
...Payne Whitney's big chestnut colt Twenty Grand was last year's Kentucky Derby winner and three-year-old champioit. His winnings for two seasons were $259,925. He was one of the few horses in the U. S. who was thought to have a chance of beating Australia's late great Phar Lap. This spring there were reports that Twenty Grand was ailing. Last week this was verified. A middle tendon in his foreleg which he ruptured in training last autumn had grown weaker instead of stronger. Mrs Whitney's stable manager said Twenty Grand...