Word: club
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absorbing interest, so is TIME, favorite publication of the undersigned. Enjoyed especially your notes in the issue of March 18 concerning Grand National at Aintree, England. Among other horse-enthusiasts off to England is Horatio C. Ford of South Euclid, Ohio, president of the two-year-old Aintree Club of the same address on the outskirts of Greater Cleveland. Horses from Cleveland's Aintree follow trails near, through and beyond beautiful Chagrin Valley, long-hunted country of the Fifth City's riders, past homes of Ambassador Herrick, newly-appointed Air Secretary David Ingalls etc. Among Aintree-of-Cleveland...
Journey's End. The theatre's ways are sometimes stranger than its plots. Some months ago the Kingston Rowing Club, a London suburban organization, found the Thames too cold for paddling and decided to put on a play by way of diversion. The club's personnel is wholly masculine, so something special had to be written for the occasion. The members turned to R. C. Sherriff, one of their number, who had had "experience" in the Surrey Amateur Dramatic Society...
Bellhops. Scandalous to logically and literally minded Latins was the jocular organization, last week, by associates and assistants of the U.S. delegation, of what they proceeded to call "The Bellhops' Club." With untempered levity the self-styled "Hops" elected as their "Chief Bellhop" the famed Yankee lawyer who as Commissioner General of the League of Nations for Hungary stabilized the finances of that nation−Jeremiah Smith Jr. By-laws provide for the "exclusion of any Bellhop caught working," and the purpose of the organization seemed to be frequent luncheons at the Hotel George V de luxe seat...
Died. George Washington Lewis, of Cambridge, Mass., for over 45 years the esteemed Negro steward of the Porcellian Club at Harvard College; in Cambridge, Mass. Ancient and most esoteric of Harvard clubs is Porcellian, founded in 1791.* An oil portrait of Steward Lewis hangs in the clubhouse. Steward Lewis had ten Porcellian pallbearers...
...Porcellian roster includes Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nicholas Longworth, Poet James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman. The club's favorite brew is a mixture of beer...