Word: debonaire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little horses, nervy and debonair, clipping the turf with pointed hoofs, mallets whacking, riders shouldering, wheeling, while young Royalty looks on. At Meadow Brook, the background is grass; at the Wanamaker Art Gallery, Manhattan, it is canvas. An exhibit of Poloiana has opened there. A wooden pony, smartly blanketed, stands at the end of the gallery-a silent symbol of the stable. The room is rigged with saddles, flags, balls, mallets; scenes of the game and portraits of dead and living players cover the walls. A painted Prince, losing in the work of St. Helier Lander something of the incipient...
...Harvard forwards and goal-guard Massey provided the entertainment throughout the evening. The M. I. T. team had little opportunity to wear itself out as the puck spent most of its time deep in the Engineers' territory. Massey won rounds of applause and laughter for his debonair but effective stops. In the first period he made 23, in the second 19, and in the third 8 for a total of 50. This is within ten of the Arena record...
...where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...