Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Westchester Polo Club whose first playing field was at the Jerome Park race track in Westchester County. Later the club moved to a field on 156th Street, Manhattan, still known as the Polo Grounds although it is the ball-park of the New York Giants...
...same number of strokes as the barnstorming British Professionals Harry Vardon & Ted Ray, the U. S. Open Golf Championship ended in a three-way tie. Identical scores of 284, after three days of nerve-racking play over the sun-baked Spring Mill course of the Philadelphia Country Club, were hung up by Craig Wood, Denny Shute and Byron Nelson...
...Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor...
Saturday's Clover Club celebration was a great success. Mike's current patron, Jules Stein of the Music Corporation of America, donated an orchestra. Mike himself showed up with $25 in his pocket which he pyramided to $125 at the gaming tables before the party broke up at 6 a. m. Missing from the guest list were a great many familiar Hollywood partygoers, including fat Elsa Maxwell, cafe society's coast-to-coast whoops-a-daisy. Explained the host: "No phonies...
...tossing streamers and confetti. Then the alumni march to the baseball field for the second Harvard-Yale game at 3:30 o'clock. After the ball game there will be supper and dancing in the Houses until 8 o'clock, and then a concert by the Harvard Glee Club and University Orchestra in the Kirkland House triangle. Dancing will be resumed in the Houses...