Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birth of Parade was the big moment in the youthful career of W. Holden White, 25, publisher and chairman of the board, and his good friend Winsor B. French, 25, cofounders. Publisher White is the polo-playing scion of the family which founded The White Co. Director French is a vivacious adman, versifier, socialite. For excellence of photography and art, credit is given to a young Clevelander, Jerome Brainerd Zerbe Jr., himself an able sketcher...
Army, saying that the organization had resented the publicity of the case. She went to Florida, married a newspaperman who later divorced her because of her "unswerving devotion to evangelistic work." Shortly thereafter in San Francisco she married rich, polo-playing Clubman Ray Splivalo, whose former wife, a niece of Mrs. Claus A. Spreckels (sugar), had divorced him because of his "unswerving devotion to sport and convivial companions." As Director of Social Welfare, Mrs. Splivalo will have charge of orphans and other dependents upon the State, also of juvenile delinquency, old age pensions. Announcing her appointment, Governor Rolph said that...
...more. To hear direct testimony, to see Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They found it exuberant, direct, its testimonies as heartfelt as those heard in oldtime Bowery missions, only here the witnesses were young people of culture and refinement? college students, city preachers, businessmen, a polo player, a Junior Leaguer?a group which no cheap or sexy revivalism could have...
...Laboratory, is one of the few college-owned fields in the U. S. and it is taxed to its capacity on big-game days. Nearby is the stadium which seats 90,000 people. The vast Stanford campus includes one of the finest Pacific Coast golf courses, two lakes, a polo field as well as two great gymnasiums and many a smaller playing field and game court. Dotted with eucalyptus trees, handsomely landscaped, it encloses a central group of rambling Spanish-Romanesque buildings. Most of the male students live in dormitories. Though there are many fraternities (with houses of their...
...they should drop off on the way to New Hampshire and visit the sesquicentennial (150 years, in translation) anniversary at Exeter. The Oriental Sage objected to the intrusion of business, emphasizing the fact that he had laid aside his plans to foretell the final scores of the Harvard-Princeton polo match and the Harvard-Holy Cross baseball duel. And here, the Vagabond must confess to a sad outcropping of a little hasty irritation. He wanted to hear President Lowell speak.... he has never missed hearing the President of Harvard since he's been writing copy for the CRIMSON...