Word: chestnut
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...Smith, headmaster of the Beaver Country Day in Chestnut Hill, will discuss "Private Secondary Education in a Democracy". In the Inglis Lecture for 1930 Professor Thomas H. Briggs launched an attack on the private schools as selfish and having no place in the educational system. Dr. Briggs will speak on the subject from the standpoint of one associated with progressive education in the private-school field...
...winter race meeting was at its height, the horses, lying down or standing motionless in their stalls, slept in darkness. The smell in the wooden barns was a smell of hay, liniment and leather. Through these pleasant smells there drifted presently the acrid odor of smoke. A tall chestnut plater flicked his ears and stumbled to his feet, making a sudden muffled thunder in the darkness...
...each, were burned to death, among them names often shouted by the crowds along the rail?Dude Girl, Leisure Hour, Rogue's Gold, Bourbon, Royal Ruby and two western platers, Pik Quik and Flapjack, owned by Major R. Nicholas of Big Horn, Wyo. One hour after the chestnut horse had kicked the boards in his stall at the smell of smoke there were no more screams of burning horses. The reluctant dawn sky had turned bright blue; smoke still curled into the still air; and exercise boys were breezing their colts around the soft dirt track...
...Women's indoor championship, Longwood Country Club, Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...Scott had been given the job of head Roman gladiator in the next Hollywood production of Ben Hur as the result of his meeting with the toppling tower of the Argentine, but that of opponent (one New York sports writer puts the "opponent" in quotes) of the Squire of Chestnut Hill in the big heavyweight setto of the year--well, that is surprising...