Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo's best. The U. S. Polo Association is a clique of moneyed, polo-playing aristocrats who not only govern the game but keep tabs on every poloist who plays well enough to compete in any of its sanctioned tournaments. Once a year these august gentlemen re-rank U. S. poloists, upping the handicaps of some, lowering those of others...
When ten crimson-shirted harriers pound along the shores of Lake Carnegie and back across the Polo Field at Princeton this Friday in their objective meets with the Elis and the Tigers, they should be concluding the best Harvard dual meet season in several years; for the team this fall is one worthy of the coaching of Jaako Mikkola, who has been turning out great distance runners for so long it seems forever...
...Polo Grounds in Manhattan, a flashy Purdue eleven that allowed Minnesota to score only seven points against it last fortnight miraculously held Fordham to a 6-to-6 tie, despite the fact that Fordham gained over three times as much ground by rushing (419 yards to 129 yards...
...soft little man who wears a rather nice polo coat and always tops it off with a tan cap, vintage of the 1920's. He stands on corners around the Square a good bit even now and says hello to most everyone. Most everyone says hello to him, too. He generally doesn't know their names, but they almost always know his. The Vagabond is one of his pals, although he doesn't know that Vag is Vag. Many a student, not excluding Vag, is indebted to this soft little man, for when they are desperate...
...Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that. You'll have to wear a necktie. I'll have the waiter bring some in from our stock." Huffed, Capra buttoned the collar...