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...knew that some fast young men from the Argentine were watching them, and that these Argentinians are going to be dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then there is Lewis L. Lacey, a ten-handicap player, blue-eyed, slight of frame, five and a half feet tall, one of the grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair, and it became known as a "Lacey." His appearance in the U. S. in 1926 was a sensation...
...hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough to lope down the avenue...
Then Mr. Goldman raised a little stick, and as he waved it, caused music to gather in the still air, drift and dissolve in the lacey tangles of the trees...
...Stroudsburg, Pa., one William Lacey, road laborer, saw the big concrete-mixer at his job stop functioning. Peering in over the muddy mixture, he saw that a stone had lodged in the machinery. Practical; he crawled inside to remove the stone. Alert, a fellow-laborer noticed the machine was idle. Dutiful, he started it working. After three minutes, Laborer Lacey, his mouth and nose bubbling cement, his clothes torn completely off, his body cut and bruised, made his shrieks heard, was rescued...
...Erechtheum" is edited by James Morton Paton '87, Gorham Phillips Stevens Hon, '22 has measured, drawn, restored the building. Lacey Davis Laskey and Harold North, Fowhem '80 contributed to the text...