Word: club
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...racing sloop Isolde, leased by Commodore Vincent Astor of the New York Yacht Club from Commodore Henry L. Maxwell of the Larchmont Yacht Club, was in a collision off Sands Point, L. I., sank in three minutes. Only the crew was aboard...
Ralph Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive...
...Open Polo Championship last week reached its final round. Across the close-cropped turf of Meadowbrook Club, Westbury, L. I., the Sands Point team, headed by Thomas Hitchcock Jr., only 10-goal U. S. poloist, charged to decisive victory and a chance to cross mallets with the Hurricanes, Irish-American four. The Hurricanes, led by Irish Capt. C. T. I. Roark, internationalist who has played on Spanish, French, Irish, English, and Indian polo fields, had defeated but one team (The Roslyns) in order to meet the two-time victorious Sands Pointers in the deciding match...
...Night Club. This vapid, badly recorded cabaret revue, introduced without scintillation by Donald Ogden Stewart and composed of flash shots of famous entertainers, of the washroom and a coatrack, has no apparent connection with the story by Katherine Brush from which it is supposed to be taken. To make it long enough for a feature, Director Robert Florey photographed and recorded an audience ceaselessly clapping hands. Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor...
...bless the gods who wrought her.' Last March John Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), called the Book-of-the-Month Club "an octopus that sucks away the life blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped...