Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Congress gone and his friends scattered, "Nick" Longworth idled about deserted Washington. He picked up a cold. It grew worse. Feeling "utterly wretched" he decided to go down to sunny, sandy Aiken, S. C. to visit his good Washington friends Mr. & Mrs. James F. Curtis (no kin to the Vice President). Fortnight ago he arrived at their low, shrub-bowered home behind its stone wall. His cold got no better. It went into his chest. Early last week doctors were called in, and put the Speaker into bed as a pneumonia patient. The pneumonia was dread Type...
Next day Alice Roosevelt Longworth, his wife, was summoned by telegraph from Washington. A specialist arrived from Augusta. Five nurses went on duty. The Speaker was put into an oxygen tent. The Press rushed representatives to Aiken as his condition changed from "serious" to "dangerous," from "critical" to "hopeless...
...Yale lineup is to be L. A. Baldwin at No. 1, J. P. Mills at No. 2, and J. C. Rathborne at back. This year's Blue team ranks as one of the best in the history of indoor polo at New Haven, both Mills and Rathborne being old Aiken stars, while Baldwin is a member of the championship Hawaiian team. However the Harvard trio has an old Aiken player itself in the person of Captain Gerry...
...recent Army game both Captain Gerry and Frederick Nicholas made five goals apiece, although the latter is rated at a much lower handicap. However the Yale trio is composed almost entirely of Old Aiken veterans, a far more experienced team than any of its rivals...
...George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, famed young poloist and gentleman jockey: the Byers Cup golf tournament at Aiken, S. C. C. Grinning, feline Jean Borotra; Tilden-esque Francis Shields; curly-haired Clif- ford Sutter; stumble-footed Berkeley Bell: their easy first-round tennis matches in the National Indoor Singles Championships; in Manhattan...