Word: mallets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exact reason why Harvard has never had a boxing team is rather difficult to discover. Certainly it isn't on account of lack of material, because there have always been more men taking their exercise with the boxing gloves than with the polo mallet; and a polo team has never been criticized as unjustified...
Also among the 4,000 present were good-golfing U. S. Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell, Wilson-praising Newton Diehl Baker, unpolitical Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, law-enforcing George Woodward Wickersham, Dean William Draper Lewis of the Pennsylvania Law School, Mexican-born Severe Mallet-Pre-vost, Emory Roy Buckner, Charles Seymour Whitman, George Wharton Pepper...
...other forecast in incorporation (TIME, Sept. 16) was that of Pacific Zeppelin Transport Co. Ltd., by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy (Goodyear Tire & Rubber financial adviser), Lehman Bros., W. A. Harriman & Co. and Pynchon & Co. It will operate Goodyear-built zeppelins from the Pacific Coast to Hawaii. If traffic warrants it will go to the Philippines. But not until at least 1933, after the Navy ships are finished, can Goodyear-Zeppelin build anything for this new operating company...
...insist that his charges be joined in companionate marriage with their oars until the feel of the sweeps becomes an ingrained habit. Polo devotees may be forced to live, wine, and dine in the saddle, although some "softies" will no doubt feel that merely toting the mallet about will suffice to carry the horsemen to intercollegiate championships. Possibly, at some date not so far in the future, the steps of Sezer Hall at class time may be thronged with sweat-shirted students swinging baseball bats, tennis and squash rackets, javelins, 16-pound weights, lacrosse sticks, soccer balls, and chessmen...
...Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means, as taught by Mrs. Hitchcock, even beginning on foot, to learn the rudiments of team play. The second step is bicycle polo, then ponies. Thus may able poloists be developed young. The Old Aikens still average under voting age. Their captain's mother, Mrs. D. Stewart Iglehart...