Word: lording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard 1928Middlesex Jones c.f. c.f. Brewster Heard 2b. 3b. Smith Pollard s.s. s.s. Kelly Lord 1b. c. Farnsworth Linscott r.f. 2b. Hopkins Adams l.f. 1b. Gierasch Hunneman 3b. l.f. Wise Chaupcey c. p. Hardie Barbee p. r.l. H. Pollard...
...Lord, a graduate of Andover and the best hitter on the team to date, will play first base. His batting has been the feature of the practice games with the second team. Hamilton Heard, last year's Groton captain, will play second base, with R. I. Hunneman, Noble and Greenough captain, at third, and A. G. Pollard, from Middlesex, at short stop...
...Marlborough?like the Dukes of Rutland and Buccleuch, the Marquess of Granby and Viscount Novar?transformed his estates into a "private, unlimited company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...
...track, in toppers, bowlers, soft felts. Those wearing caps wandered about outside the stands or perched like rooks in trees about the course. The Kang was not there nor was the Prince of Wales; but this unusual state of affairs was to some extent remedied by the presence of Lord Derby and other famed sportsmen. Time went on; a bell rang; 33 spry horses came out and began to dance. Suddenly the crowd took a long breath; Lord Derby lifted his binoculars; yoho, they were off, yo frightfully...
Died. General Lord Henry S. Rawlinson, 61, Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in India; in Delhi, of appendicitis. He was made a General in recognition of his services during the first Battle of the Somme, where he commanded the first British offensive. The French called him "Le Général Bonne Humeur" because of his unfailing cheerfulness and optimism; his tactical genius was praised by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener...