Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cavalry has only 9,919 men, 895 officers in 12 horsed regiments, two mechanized regiments. Its new chief is lively Major General John K. Herr, a grey horseman, onetime top-flight polo player, who hates to smell gasoline, does what he can to brake the trend toward mechanization at the cost of horsed units...
Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Lightweight Champion Lou Ambers defends his title against Welter and Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
...more exclusive than polo, class J-yacht racing or court tennis, sportsmen who want to indulge in Vogelschiessen must present a pedigree. Only descendants of these old Saxon craftsmen may shoot. With steel crossbows and steel-tipped wooden bolts, the Thierfelders, Dietzes, Dreschers-now butchers, knitters, iron workers-took turns last week shooting at a double-headed eagle, jig-sawed out of wood and mounted on a pole 30 ft. high. Purpose of the sport is to knock off a claw, a beak, a wing, and thereby win a prize-such as an electric fan, a thermos bottle, a clock...
...year ago last week rifle bullets zinged over the heads of Japanese soldiers as they engaged in unauthorized night maneuvers near the white stone lions of the Marco Polo Bridge, ten miles south-west of Peking. The Japanese believed that Chinese soldiers stationed nearby had fired the shots and soon the two contingents were flat on their bellies, peppering each other. This was exactly the "incident" the Japanese Army had been waiting for as an excuse to extend its control south and west of the province of Jehol, occupied in 1933, to the remaining North China provinces of Chahay, Hopei...
Three years later, Barbara came through. From Bangkok, Siam, where he had chased her, Alexis Mdivani, a polo-playing princeling of the marrying Mdivanis of Georgia, Russia, announced that Barbara had finally consented to marry him. This was real news in anybody's paper. It got better when the prince relinquished any future claim to Barbara's fortune, having first received $1,000,000 from her. Then he married her in Byzantine splendor in Paris' Russian Orthodox Church. Hiring half a deck of an ocean liner, they set off for a round-the-world honeymoon...