Word: fancier
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Irish Army officer named Dan Corry bought the little freak for $250, brought him to the U. S. in 1932 to compete in the military jumping events at the National Horse Show. The pony never went back to Ireland. Arthur Tolman. a New England horse fancier, took a fierce fancy to him, persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert...
...week the State Racing Commission, after five months' deliberation, sanctioned Jersey's first horse park since betting was outlawed in 1893. True to tradition, the operators of Jersey's first 20th-century race track will be the Monmouth Park Racing Association-a group headed by Horse Fancier Amory Lawrence Haskell, M.F.H., on whose Red Bank estate the tony Monmouth County Steeplechase is held each fall...
...Miss Royce was fired and replaced by Miss Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild...
...three years ago, a tall, plump, perspiring Negro preacher named Glenn T. Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before he put them...
...Pont-owned Wilmington newspapers. For 24 hours the company changes outheadlined the war. But the startling fact of a non-Du Pont in the presidency meant no change in the family control, no shift, rift or difference in policy. Lively Henry Belin du Pont, 41, dog fancier, aviator and vice president, specialist in engineering, purchases and sales, stands ready to bring the Du Pont name back to the president's office when energetic Walter Carpenter eventually gets ready to step...