Word: lacey
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...shipment brought from England in 1890 and loosed in Central Park, Manhattan. As in the case of English sparrows, imported 1850 by the Brooklyn Institute, the birds were to be used as insect killers. So troublesome did both starlings and English sparrows soon become that 25 years ago the Lacey law was passed prohibiting the importation of any variety of bird without the consent of the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Paris a fortnight ago, said a few fast greetings in French and moved down the pier to the luggage space allotted those whose names began with A. There were 22 trunks to be passed on, trunks filled with costumes which were white and ruffled, sleek and black, cloudy and lacey: trunks for gay mantillas, for red and green and golden slippers. Even customs officers looked their awe. Such colors, such stuffs were rare. Such charm was rare too, but at the moment no commensurate assurance swelled the breast of the sparkling creature. To be sure she was La Argentina...
Papers the next morning said "Argentine Beats U. S. in Second Polo Tilt Tying Series?Lacey Hero" or, after the third game, "U. S. Defeats Argentine in Final Game Clinching Championship of Americas?Harriman Star...
...notably helped America beat the Argentine was Hitchcock's Tobiano. A litle piebald horse, striped in white on the haunches and short in the neck, as quick on the ball as a kitten, Tobiano arrived at his skill on the pampas of the Argentine, working with cowherds. Here Lewis Lacey chose the pony for his present master; the American captain played Tobiano for two periods in every game of the 1927 series against England...
...polo player Harriman is the complete opposite of Lewis Lacey, the Argentine back, now one of the three active ten goal men in the world and perhaps as great a player as famed, retired Devereaux Milburn...