Word: lanier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during that school's first year, when it had no buildings of its own but only rented rooms in the midst of Boston. In 1882 he was a recently acquired young partner of the old New York banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Boston born and bred, he had already established among the more flamboyant New Yorkers a quiet reputation as a thorough investigator and sound organizer of the projects into which men put money...
...played better polo than the other Canadians; rode better and handled her stick almost as well as the Prince of Wales does. Mrs. James Hewlett, at No. 3, scored four of the five U. S. goals and played better than anyone else in the match. Neither of the Lanier girls, Sally & Becky, scored against Canada...
This was remarkable because Sally Lanier and her sister were playing the forward positions. They are both splendid horsewomen; Sally, despite the fact that it was only a few years ago that she left Rosemary Hall, is experienced in polo while her sister, more nearly a novice, was the more eager to display her speed & brilliance. Charles B. Lanier, their father, the son of Poet Sidney Lanier, is the Secretary and Treasurer of the Review of Reviews; the Laniers live in Greenwich, Conn. The Lanier girls began to ride horses as soon as they could walk; pictures of them jumping...
Robert White Lanier, Negro stowaway on PolarPilgrim Byrd's flagship, The City of New York, was the cause of an exulting editorial in the Pittsburgh Courier (famed Negro newspaper), which said: "Whatever goes on in the world there always seems to be a Negro there" (TIME, Sept...
Last week, stowaway Lanier was removed from The City of New York at Colon, Panama, because he is physically unfit for antarctic exploration; he has a police record for disorderly conduct and abusive language...