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...27?Celebration of Navy Day, auspices of the Navy League, chief fete at Washington...
Last week in the mild continuous fete that constitutes summer life on Long Island, one activity gained increasing importance. Many incidents bespoke it. A stalwart, bronzed gentleman arrived in Manhattan on the Mauretania-Gerald Balding, contender for No. 2 on the English international polo team. He was a little ahead of his teammates, but they were starting too. Their 67 ponies were on the way over on the S. S. Minnetonka. Another foreign team, an extraordinary one made up of four brothers Ashton from Australia-Philip, Geoffrey, James, Robert-all about the same size, closely resembling each other, ranked...
...trip to Switzerland will be one without guides. It will be the first American summer ski trip made without a guide. The skiing will start from an altitude of 1500 fete. Shiing is an art the pursuance of which members of the club consider of the utmost importance as a part of their club activities. One of the requirements for full membership in the club is that the individual be versed in this sport. Skiing is more in vogue, in Europe, however...
...brotherhood with Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed flyer over far poles. Richmond's politico-social renaissance received scarcely a decimal fraction of the nationa publicity attending Commander Byrd': preparations to depart for the South Pole from Los Angeles?preparations which obliged the unsocial-seeming explorer to absent himself from a fete in his honor...
Later at a Grand Fete in the gardens of His Majesty's palace, a special detachment of police gently prodded stray Parliamentarians who forgot that they were not robed and proceeded to squat upon the ground, though chairs abounded...