Excerpt from Picking Winners With Major Miles All good Kentuckians, and some who were not so good, knew Major Miles. He lived, moved and made his bets in the period between the passing of the gold millionaires of forty-nine and the advent of the steel magnates of nineteen one. He is still with us, but aging rapidly, bewildered at the times and the customs - the coming of Volstead and the passing of the betting ring. The blue grass belles of the Major's youth wore crinolines and long skirts. Their place was in the home, ...
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Excerpt from Picking Winners With Major Miles All good Kentuckians, and some who were not so good, knew Major Miles. He lived, moved and made his bets in the period between the passing of the gold millionaires of forty-nine and the advent of the steel magnates of nineteen one. He is still with us, but aging rapidly, bewildered at the times and the customs - the coming of Volstead and the passing of the betting ring. The blue grass belles of the Major's youth wore crinolines and long skirts. Their place was in the home, and irting was their dissipation. The men attended to the swearing, the smoking and the drinking. But they did none of the first and little of the last in the presence of the ladies, God bless them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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