Word: poloist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down to the tail. In the Stork Club, where celebrities and whatnots were three deep along the bar, Author Ernest Hemingway argued with Poloist Winston Guest...
...Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said Father Stevenson: "I take great pride. . . . It's like showing a winning horse...
...holds the ball or is within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly when they sink, none has ever drowned. There are not more than a few thousand athletes in the U.S. capable of playing the game. There are 24 teams in New York, 18 in Philadelphia, cities where the game is particularly popular. Next to the New York Athletic Club...
...about among the sheet-covered bodies Dr. Charles E. Norris, the city's longtime Chief Medical Examiner, lifted a sheet, quickly put it down again. "My God!" cried Dr. Norris. "It's Mrs. Peabody. I knew her well." Few minutes later Mrs. Peabody's brother, famed Poloist Tommy Hitchcock Jr., claimed her body and that of her husband, Manhattan Architect Julian L. Peabody. Other notable victims: Professor Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime...
...special Long Island R. R. trains that ran out from Manhattan in 40 minutes, orchids were peddled instead of candy, cigarets or papers. At Meadow Brook, F. Ambrose Clark appeared, as is his custom, in a black-and-yellow tallyho. Famed Poloist-Comedian Will Rogers, just back from a round-the-world trip, motored straight to Meadow Brook to greet the members of the West team that had already lost one game in the two-out-of-three polo series against the East. Said he: "It's all right, boys, I'm here...