Word: tonier
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rink, climaxed his whirring career by winning a roller marathon in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (309 miles in 24 hours), then settled down to the swivel-chair job of managing rinks. When he took over Detroit's million-dollar Arena Gardens, he began to angle for tonier patronage and a national organization to clean up the country's shady, shoddy roller rinks. He caught both fish...
...attraction for the country's richest stables was the American Derby at Chicago's Washington Park. Started in 1884 to show snooty Easterners that Chicago was no longer a frontier town, the American Derby offered an inaugural purse of $10,000, more than double what the older, tonier Kentucky Derby offered. By 1893, its purse was $50,000, more than ten times Kentucky's. But, when panic hit its Pit, Chicago gave no thought to thoroughbreds, abandoned its Derby...