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...They understand each other. Cold at times, yes; but then again the sun rises to the old Tower first before lighting the world below. And that old chair is the Vagabond's true friend and was his father's father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well and so long. No. The Vagabond is a sentimentalist. New things, modern things will not pollute...
...bouquet to his bosom where he was already holding one tossed that morning from California (see below). But the Republican enemies of Republicans Curtis and Landon could not let the ceremony pass. Was it, they asked, a bouquet from a bride or a skunk cabbage from a scullery maid? What right had Charles Curtis to speak for Kansas? What right had he to propose a candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred his legal residence, as of March...
...Tipton Old Glory sales of yearling trotters held each autumn in New York City, prices average about one half those at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales at Saratoga. On the other hand, until Sun Beau passed her record in 1931, the biggest money-winning horse in history was Goldsmith Maid, a trotter who, in 123 races from 1865 to 1877, won $364,200. Foaled by a dam who pulled a cart for a New Jersey hat peddler, a farm horse until she was 6, Goldsmith Maid had raced only once at 8, made her best time...
...which Goldsmith Maid reached her prime seems strange, the age of trotting-horse drivers seems stranger still. Most sports have one "grand old man," but trotting contains almost no other kind and a driver with less than 20 years experience is rarely seen on first-rate tracks. Famed Pop Geers was only one of many who drove for more than 50 years. Trotting drivers ordinarily start as stable boys, work slowly upward through the stages of being grooms, second-trainers, and finally trainer-drivers with public stables of their own. Most good drivers train the horses which they drive. They...
...court, giving her to her mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt, for weekends, Christmas and July, to her aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, for the rest of the year (TIME. Dec. 3 et ante). Though the opinion went out of its way to exonerate Mrs. Vanderbilt of her onetime maid's charge that she behaved indiscreetly with the Marchioness of Milford Haven, it pointedly concluded: "If the relator [Mrs. Vanderbilt] shall avail herself fully of her rights under the order, she will spend more time with her child than for many years past...