Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Citroen, Argentine-bred chestnut polo pony owned by Robert Lehman and ridden in the international matches last week by Eric Pedley: first prize in the annual show of the National Polo Pony Society at the Meadow Brook Club (Westbury...
...Hurricanes (Stephen Sanford, Eric Pedley, Capt. C. T. I. Roark, Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.): the U. S. Open Polo Championship at Meadow Brook, coming from behind with four goals in a row to beat Winston Guest and his Templetons...
Polo's Big Moment comes once every three years, when a squat silver mug with little horses and men springing out of its base stands gleaming on a table in front of the bright blue West Stand at Meadow Brook, gleaming as the emblem of victory for the International teams galloping up and down the broad stretch of turf, and as the central sparkle in one of the country's finest sporting panoramas. Custom dictates that the cup shall be at the field after one team has won one game. The score of the first game...
...about his salary, temperamentally expressed, had finally tired the Paramount company. Certainly the first rumor is contradicted by what he does here. It is a dialog picture made completely in French for foreign export-an adaptation of the film released in the U. S. as Slightly Scarlet, with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Menjou's voice is as suave as his pantomime and he uses it deftly, talking his own language. Claudette Colbert is cast with him and they are supported by a French cast recruited in Hollywood, where L'Enigmatique Monsieur Parkes was made...
...night after. There were parties all week through Long Island's polo country. Big cars hurried along the roads, driving a little faster than usual for there were many trips to be made-guests met at the station, a wait at the front door and then to Meadow Brook or Piping Rock for lunch, then the game, then out to dinner, and a long wait through the dancing. At the parties, and in the garish, robins-egg blue grandstand at the games, was a mingling of many worlds, the great business world and the somewhat different, sporting-society world...