Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elizabeth Madox Roberts is not afraid of grandeur, and she approaches her stories with conscious dignity. And in her majestic entrances and exits she rarely catches her foot in the mat. But the grandness of her manner, which was increasingly impressive in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn symbolism to show...
...HETCH HETCHY . . . from Hatchatchie, a Central Miwok Indian name for a grass or plant which grows in the meadow at the lower end of this deep valley, producing edible seeds which the Indians pounded into meal in mortars...
...special Long Island R. R. trains that ran out from Manhattan in 40 minutes, orchids were peddled instead of candy, cigarets or papers. At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho. Famed Poloist-Comedian Will Rogers, just back from a round-the-world trip, motored straight to Meadow Brook to greet the members of the West team that had already lost one game in the two-out-of-three polo series against the East. Said he: "It's all right, boys, I'm here...
...socialite crowd (20,000) in Meadow Brook's robin's-egg blue stands was still shouting when the teams rode out for the last chukker. West was still flabbergasted, East too tired to do much more than defend its goal. Score: East 10. West...
...first East-West polo matches at Chicago last year were a Century of Progress triumph. They produced two weeks of noisy entertainment by Chicago socialites and the liveliest polo in 20 years. In the second East-West series, which started at Meadow Brook, L. I. last week, the East's main consolation for producing nothing comparable in the way of excitement was the one period of magnificent polo which enabled the young team of Michael Phipps, James Mills, Winston Guest, and William Post to open the series against the heavier, more experienced Westerners, Eric Pedley, Elmer Boeseke, Cecil Smith...