Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polo. Alfonso XIII, 40, probably the only living sovereign young enough to ride a pirouetting polo pony, played back, one afternoon, for the polo team of the 65th Lancers against the 7th Hussars. With a potent swipe of the royal mallet he split a polo ball both halves of which rolled over the goal line. By that goal the Lancers...
...They put down $500,000 as earnest money. In the syndicate were G. Maurice Heckscher, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, grandson of Mrs. Vanderbilt, Leonard Replogle of the steel company of that name, Colonel Henry F. Lindsley, banker and former Mayor of Dallas, Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., member of the U. S. polo team in the last international matches...
...distances they described, their audiences became known as "the court of the millions." Until just last year one of the things they related ? of a sheep with great horns ? was still regarded as semi-fabulous.? English schoolboys still call a dubious story a "Marco Polo...
...Venice at Genoa in 1298, rather than waste time he employed an amanuensis and dictated a careful account of what his father (Nicolo) and uncle (Maffeo) and self had seen. He indited the script to "Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls and Knights," full knowing that the house of Polo would profit by the advertisement. Copies of this manuscript were made in several tongues, which scholars and explorers have annotated through the centuries. The present volume is the classic translation by Scholar Marsden of England (1818), edited now with reference to the most modern scientific research and with an aim forgotten...
...first outdoor event of the polo season, officials of the Intercollegiate Polo Association expect the largest crowd of spectators that has ever witnessed a college match. Many prominent sportsmen are to be present among whom will probably be Mayor James J. Walker, of New York City. His honor has been asked to throw out the ball for the first flit. The New York official is known to be an ardent polo fan, and will attend his engagements permit...