Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoy "a complex system of tax privileges and exemptions," many never fully disclosed, on her private fortune. "One has to admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought to continue to maintain "the clutch of palaces, the powdered footmen, the racing stables and polo ponies, the fleets of luxury cars, the squadrons of aircraft and helicopters, the yachts, the elaborate apparatus of consumption at its most conspicuous level...
...about $100,000 of the annual cost of state entertainment. Prince Philip, who receives a taxable annual stipend of $96,000, has recently induced the Treasury to pick up the laundry and cleaning bills he runs up on state business. He has not yet had to give up polo or move his family into smaller premises, as he jestingly threatened a couple of years ago on NBC's Meet the Press when he said that the family was "going into...
Andrew, who played for Cornell in his undergraduate days and who currently teaches at UNH, was pleased with his team's performance. "Our boys are coming along well, considering none of them knew how to play polo three years ago. They just need to get in a lot of riding practice," Andrew said after the game...
...afternoon was successful for the Polo Club not only from the scoring standpoint. Over $1000 was collected to help alleviate the club's financial strain...
...fact, everything turned out very well yesterday, except in the pony give away. Lucy, a Shetland, was supposed to go to a thrilled kid. Instead. Lucy went to Billy Muleahey, a member of the Polo Club, who said he already has three polo ponies and has no place to put Lucy...