Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo Association that a series of international matches be played at Onwentsia. Mr. Stoddard said that would be fine but they would have to be financed. Major McLaughlin and his friends dug up $20,000 for polo's sake and arrangements were made to import the Old Aiken team, composed of four Long Island youths, and the Santa Paula team from Argentina which played in California last year. Last week the great moment came: Onwentsia was for a moment polo capital of the land...
When the international matches were finally ready to begin, the Argentines were favorites. Theirs was a rugged, seasoned team, held together by 40-year-old, eight-goal Manuel Andrada at back. Cokey Rathborne, Jimmy Mills, Stewart Iglehart and Elbridge Gerry have called themselves the Old Aiken team for the last four or live seasons. They have been playing together on fields at Aiken. Westbury, Harvard and Yale and on the tanbark of Manhattan armories for the last eleven years. They averaged 30 Ib. lighter, but 15 years younger than the Argentines. . In the first match, with 4,000 excited socialites...
Died, Edward Dean Adams, 85, retired banker; in Manhattan; of injuries received in an automobile accident near Aiken, S. C., last March while he was going to Fort Myers, Fla., to visit his friend Thomas Alva Edison. Born in Boston of a collateral branch of the presidential Adams family, he went to Manhattan in 1878 as a partner in Winslow, Lanier & Co. Reorganizer during the 1880's of many railroads, he reorganized in 1893 the $300,000,000 Northern Pacific of which he was board chairman in 1896-97. From 1890 to 1896 he was board chairman and president...
...renunciation of pursuit for a life of vicarious excitment; of multitudinous selves, like a multitude of cells, forming a city's enormous brain; of the mystery of personal identity: of the impossibility of escape from the ego. Arid dangerous themes for poetry, certainly, but in elaborating them Aiken composed an iridescent epic of our inner world...
There seems to be little reason for a whole chapter on Aiken's novel. "Blue Voyage", which as a particularly clear elucidation of the author's own ideas could hardly by improved on by another layer of prose by Mr. Peterson. However, taken all in all he has written a lucid and illuminating appreciation of Courad Aiken whom he realizes to have gone as far as possible in the direction of spiritual disorder without plunging into madness," a poet who lives with the language of Freud and the feelings of Othello...