Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when his Imperial career began. He went to Cuba during the rebellion against Spain as a war correspondent. Spain in Cuba seemed to him a model of all that Imperial rule should not be: irresponsible, wasteful, harsh, above all vindictive and vengeful. In India too he pondered (meanwhile playing polo, serving on the frontier, reading Gibbon, moral philosophy, history and military strategy) and after writing The River War, a description of the Sudan campaign, and a terrible novel, decided to take up literature and politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer...
...famed warrior ancestor, to 19); to write articles, lecture, gamble, and swell his income to around $100,000 a year, to potter around his estate at "Chartwell," where he relaxes by putting up small brick buildings-he once belonged to a bricklayers' union-to play a little polo, paint tolerable landscapes which he exhibited under the name of "Charles Marin," and to organize a group of some 30 Tory M.P.s who challenged Prime Minister Chamberlain's foreign policy...
...Polo, under Major Sargent, swimming, a gle sculling, and tennis complete the list of spring sports, in all of which Freshmen may participate...
Major numerals are awarded in football, basketball, baseball, crew, hockey, swimming, track, and cross country. Minor numerals in soccer, swimming, lacrosse, tennis, golf, polo, track, wrestling, squash, 150-lb crew, fencing, cross country, and skiing...
...English yachting festival known as Cowes Week. Held on the Solent, between the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the wooded southern shore of the mainland, Cowes is to yachting what Wimbledon is to tennis, what Ascot is to horse racing, what Hurlingham is to polo, what Lord's is to cricket...