Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Eighth Avenue the waiter at Andy Murphy's Bar hauled out his finest Scotches and liqueurs; a nearby news vendor noticed a sudden flurry in the demand for such publications as Rider & Driver and Town & Country. From 48th to 52nd Streets, prizefight and hockey fans were in temporary retreat before the advancing wave of high society which was bravely turned out in sables and silk hats, diamonds and décolletages. The 61st annual National Horse Show was on in Madison Square Garden...
...hockey season came in like a lamb. For almost a month the National Hockey League played before unfilled houses as though every man's heart was set on winning the Lady Byng Trophy (hockey's award for gentlemanly conduct). Last week in Chicago Stadium, hot-tempered Defenseman Kenny Reardon of the Montreal Canadiens put an end to all that...
...Annex hockey team yesterday accepted the challenge of the Mill Street Field Hockey Association for a two-sex embroglio "sometime between...
Radcliffe College received a bid last night for a field hockey encounter with Harvard students of the Mill Street Athletic Association...
Coburn said the Mill Street squad plays the accepted rules of girls' field hockey at every college. "As far as I can remember, there are 12 people on a team, and they spend the afternoon running up and down a long field," he mused...