Word: peake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played erratic polo through the first periods (unlike Tommy Hitchcock, Winston Guest, Malcolm Stevenson) William Averill Harriman became the hero of the exciting encounter. He had been placed upon the team late in the season, in the series of revisions which made the Argentines, who reached their peak the week before the matches, the favorites. If the U. S. four had failed to win, their forward would certainly have received the blame; just as certainly their victory was due to his abruptly brilliant play in the last period...
...first issue contained an able and informative article on Arthur Brisbane by John K. Winkler (biographer of Hearst). On the next page was a remarkable photograph of a giant tortoise. Fannie Brice told her "own story" and some Indians were observed worshipping God-in-Nature on a mountain peak (via Underwood & Underwood photograph). Mrs. Stillman wrote on Paris fashions, not far from a huge photograph of herself. The U. S. institutions discussed-and apparently believed in-were "West Point-Its Idea" and "Broadway-from Pabst to Nedick." There was no discussion of the flag...
...second, Hunter the third. After the five-minute rest, Cochet came out in a knitted shirt, his eyes looking huge and tired in his little pale face. He spurted five games; Hunter caught him; Cochet took the set and then, speeding up his game to somewhere near its peak, the last one. The scores...
...peak for short-term notes was touched...
...Cochet was the toast of the boulevards last week. His work in the doubles and his quick disposal of Tilden in the singles, 9-7, 8-6, 6-4, showed conclusively that when he is at his peak no man can climb him. The tabulation: France...