Word: polo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miles. "It must make an old cowman mad to see a fellow in shiny boots and polo pants riding a slick horse. Well, it hurts in a way to see these mail pilots climbing up into heated cabins or cockpits and talking to somebody on the ground over the radiophone." Thus re-pined E. Hamilton Lee, 37, who flew the first experimental air mail routes for the Government eleven years ago. Planes were relatively primitive then, routes unmarked, every trip a life's risk. Reason for Senior Pilot Lee's last week's thought: retrospection. He had just completed...
Died. James P. Mandell, 23, of Boston, son of George S. Mandell, editor of the Boston Transcript; in Norwood, Mass.; of intracranial injuries sustained in a polo collision...
...Number Two event of the U. S. Polo year came to pass last week at Rumson, N. J., where fishhawks nest on the telephone poles and the Shrewsbury River winds placidly into the sea. The National Open tournament next month at Meadowbrook will be U. S. Polo's Number One event for 1929. Last week's play was the National Junior...
...crowd gathered last week before the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace on Operating Day. The worried crowd waited while automobiles drove up bearing physicians, surgeons, a radiologist, anaesthetists. Saluted by sentries were other automobiles containing the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester (just back from Canada, his polo-broken collarbone mended) and Prince George. Three of her sons had come to stay with Queen Mary during the operation...
...still too crude for the effect attempted. You sorely miss the old-fashioned bathos of those pictures which tried hard, however ineptly, to make you cry or wriggle with excitement. Typical shots: Frederick Graham, cinema's best butler, bringing Captain Dean (Kenneth MacKenna) the roses a philandering polo player has sent up for Mrs. Dean...