Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo versus Army at West Point...
...made up his mind he was going to be an anthropologist. At 15 he had become such an expert on the American Indian that he amused himself compiling technical errors in the Leather Stocking Tales. He wrote a dissertation on the ethnographic significance of Marco Polo's travels. Before he was 20 he had had to work as a farmer and clerk, but by the time he came of age he had hammered his way onto the staff of the Bremen Museum...
Deciding to take up indoor polo, Gabriel ("Frenchy") Loudoux, manager of a Flushing, L. I. riding academy, last autumn bought a small chestnut mare named Nightingale which had had some training in the game. He rarely rented the horse to his customers, keeping her mostly for himself and sometimes letting June Ebdom, a 15-year-old neighbor girl, take her out for exercise. After a few months Horseman Loudoux noticed Nightingale's middle beginning to swell, dismissed it as hay belly, a common winter affliction of horses...
Died. Captain the Hon. Frederick Edward Guest, 61, polo-playing onetime (1921-22) British Secretary of State for Air, cousin of British Tory Winston Churchill, father of famed U. S. Poloist Winston Frederick Churchill Guest; of pleurisy; at Sunbury-on-Thames, England. His wife, steel heiress Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, backed Amelia Earhart Putnam's first transatlantic flight in 1928 when Captain Guest dissuaded her from attempting the adventure herself...
...shooting, returned to his 10,000-acre farm in his native Georgia. Five years ago, he bought a house at Atherton, Calif., 30 miles south of San Francisco, where he and his family now live. Apparently as spry as ever, he amuses himself by golf, which he plays lefthanded, polo, hunting, fishing...