Word: poloists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport, since the minimum equipment usually includes a string of ponies at a minimum of $1,500 each. Now it was getting too expensive for the rich, too. Obviously no one was going to rewrite the nation's tax laws just to save polo. Millionaire Poloist George H. Bostwick decided that the only cure for the ailing old sport was an injection of professionalism...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Sajjan Singhji, 67, Maharaja of Ratlam, small (693 square miles) Indian state, internationally known poloist; in Bombay...
Ernest Hemingway was having the time of his life. Just arrived in Manhattan from Idaho, where he had been shooting duck, he skipped off to Gardiner's Island, N.Y. as the guest of Poloist Winston Guest, to shoot duck...
Died. Major Francis Yeats-Brown, 58, handsome professional soldier-author (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Lancer at Large), distinguished poloist and pigsticker (hunter of wild boars), practitioner of Yoga; in London...
Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, polished peacetime poloist (9 goals), second cousin of Winston Churchill, peeled his way through five weeks of boot training at Parris Island, S.C., got commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps...